With the introduction of a lottery for top draft picks negotiated into baseball’s Collective Bargaining Agreement beginning with the 2023 Draft, the Orioles stopped stinking at just the right time. They had the worst record in the 2021 season and they are the last team to take that into an automatic #1 pick in the following Draft.
Added to that were picks in both competitive balance round A (after the first round) and round B (after the second round). The Orioles had two such picks because they acquired the round B pick from the Marlins in the surprise late spring training deal that sent Tanner Scott and Cole Sulser to Miami.