Draft time rolling around was a nice diversion back in the bad Orioles years. Those teams were nearly always heading for the toilet even by early June, and so you could look at the draft and imagine the Orioles getting some top talent who proved to be great in the future. That’s how they got Matt Wieters, Brian Matusz, Manny Machado, and Dylan Bundy - all of whom were hyped as amateurs, whatever they did or didn’t do later.
The 2013 draft was the first one where the Orioles did not have this opportunity.