Sizing up the Orioles competition for a top 2022 draft pick: August edition

Bad baseball in action. Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Four months into the 2021 season, there’s not much of a secret or much of a surprise about who the worst teams are. The standings speak for themselves. Sudden improvement is not very likely, especially among the teams that made themselves worse prior to the July 30 trade deadline.

In my last look at the worst teams in the league, the five worst records belonged to these teams: Diamondbacks, Orioles, Rangers, Pirates, Rockies. Four of those five teams are still among the five worst teams, with only the Rockies having ascended, a little bit.

For one of these really bad teams, the #1 pick in next year’s draft will be the prize. Right…