The Rule 5 draft is like another Christmas for the Orioles front office, only instead of opening their own presents, they get to open up other teams’ presents and keep it all for themselves. You can understand why this draft is so exciting for the O’s when they’ve gotten players like Ryan Flaherty and Joey Rickard in the draft. That was sarcasm just there.
The 2016 edition of the draft saw the Orioles take two players in the MLB phase. They grabbed a pair of outfielders. With the regular pick that everyone expected them to make, they grabbed 24-year-old Aneury Tavarez from the Red Sox organization.