Days ahead of the 2021 Major League Baseball draft, Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias said Friday that the team’s intensive work on the No. 5 overall pick began with 12 players and has been whittled down from there.
With the draft fast approaching, he said the “heartbeat is starting to go” in the draft room as they prepare for another pivotal pick in this protracted rebuilding effort.
“We’re getting close,” Elias said. “I don’t know what’s going to happen ahead of us. I could probably take a guess, but you just never know.