As the Orioles set their sights on the future, they had to go back to it, in a way, in order to supplement their surging Minor League system.

Baltimore acquired Tommy Wilson from the Mariners in exchange for cash considerations on Wednesday evening, adding to their farm a 25-year-old right-hander who posted a 2.35 ERA and 10.6 strikeouts per nine across 15 1/3 relief innings at the Double-A level in 2021.

And if you were wondering where the name Tommy Wilson might sound familiar from, it’s because his father, Thomas Wilson, was the actor who portrayed Biff Tannen in the “Back to the Future” trilogy.

"Throughout my whole life, I kind of continually realized how big the movies were," Wilson, then a farmhand for the Mets, told MiLB.com last year. "Everybody I've run into and everybody I meet has heard of it or seen it or whatever.

"Still today, I continually am surprised by how big of a deal it is. And I don't blame it for being a big deal. My dad did a great job."

Major League organizations are still permitted to make transactions at the Minor League level under the current roster freeze imposed by the expiration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Wilson was selected by the Mariners in the Minor League portion of the Rule 5 Draft on Wednesday afternoon and then was quickly flipped to the O’s.

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Wilson was a 19th-round Draft pick of the Mets out of California State University in 2018 and owns a 3.28 ERA across three Minor League seasons. He’s answered many questions about his father along the way -- questions which centered around the most raucous fan in his corner.

“Fortunately, he got his mother’s athletic prowess and his father’s good looks,” the elder Wilson once joked to the Los Angeles Times.

It’s unclear if Biff had this career trajectory playing out for Tommy in his sports almanacs.