How the Orioles adjusted their scouting and evaluations for this year’s shortened MLB draft

A draft that will be held in unprecedented circumstances this week — remotely instead of conducted from teams’ respective draft rooms, with few if any in-person scouting looks at players, and just five rounds instead of 40 — will be the latest opportunity for the Orioles under executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias to continue the process of developing the next wave of talent from within the organization.

And after a few weeks of adjusting to the new circumstances, team officials believe the infrastructures already put in place over the past year, plus some changes in approach thanks to the coronavirus pandemic that caused so much disruption to their processes, have them…