Everyone probably knows by now what the Orioles did with the top overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft, but just as important was what they didn’t do.
They didn’t outsmart themselves. They picked the guy that everybody would have picked. Oregon State catcher Adley Rutschman is the whole package and you didn’t need a lot of fancy analytics to prove that he was the best amateur player in the country.
He wasn’t the only good choice, of course. The Orioles could have gone with high school shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. and nobody would have batted an eye.