When a big league team is hopeless and doesn’t even have many good, young players to watch every night, the first day of the draft is one of the most exciting days of the year for fans of that team. In the strange world we’re living in this year where there’s been no baseball at all, the draft is all that any fan of any team has to look forward to.
For the rebuilding Orioles, this is a particularly big deal. They need to hit on the #2 overall pick that they have received thanks to being very, very bad - but still not the worst - last season with their 54-108 record.