As anyone who watched the Orioles over the last couple of years knows, the team needs a lot of help in a lot of places. There are some interesting players across the farm system, but it’s probably not the case that the best players from the farm will be enough to make the O’s a good team again on their own. Nailing the draft year in and year out is going to be a big part of a revival, if there’s going to be one.
If you spent the pre-draft weeks and months reading the musings and rumors from the mainstream draft/prospect writers, you had probably been looking forward to the Orioles drafting Vanderbilt’s Austin Martin.