The only thing good about being a fan of a very bad baseball team is that the team’s pick in the next year’s draft will be near the top, if not at the top, of the first round. That is what a full rebuilding/tanking effort is all about. Bottom out to maximize chances for future improvement.
Even this simple reality can be thwarted if the team decides to take its high pick and deploy an underslot signing strategy rather than taking the best player available. The immediate returns of the Orioles doing this in 2020 are not good.