Camden Chat · Dec 14, 2016
Orioles get another trade-able draft pick. How will they waste it next year?
The only thing that the Orioles might love almost as much as making Rule 5 picks is giving up early-round picks from the June draft. The O’s will have another chance to find a way to do that in the 2017 draft, as they have again received a competitive balance round B draft pick, which MLB announced on Tuesday, currently slotted at #74 overall.
No one should go getting any ideas about what the Orioles might be able to do with that pick or the slot money it will provide. The pattern in recent years is that, some way or another, the Orioles will trade this pick.