Sizing up the Orioles competition for a top 5 draft pick in 2022

Photo by Will Newton/Getty ImagesThe 2021 Orioles are not a very good baseball team. This is not a surprising announcement to anyone. Last year’s O’s team overachieved a little bit in the shortened season and the team took that roster, shed a few semi-productive players, then charged back into the part of the rebuild process where winning at the major league level is not strategically relevant.

The one silver lining to your favorite baseball team being bad is that at least they will pick high in the next year’s draft and have the best chance to add a great prospect to the system. The O’s seem to have been broadly following the rebuilding path set by the Astros, where GM Mike Elias was an…