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There are a handful of teams—the Royals, Tigers and Pirates join the Orioles on this list—that have fallen on hard times after fielding a run of contenders in the mid-2010s. Of that group, the O’s are the furthest from being good again. But they have made progress down on the farm. They now have a top-10 prospect in switch-hitting catcher Adley Rutschman, the No.