This year's edition of the MLB Draft begins tomorrow at 1pm with the White Sox on the clock. The Orioles, after their disappointing season, ended up with a little bit of bad luck when the draft lottery played out and received the #7 pick in the draft for their trouble. They had the fourth-best odds of getting the top pick. It didn't work out that way, so the consensus top three prospects, Roch Cholowsky of UCLA, Texas high school shortstop Grady Emerson, and Georgia Tech catcher Vahn Lackey are out of their reach.
Who could the Orioles pick? No one can say for sure, for a variety of reasons. One is that the Orioles front office keeps a tight ship and they do not have their business leaking out to the media often. When it comes to the draft, that means that anything like a mock draft is usually just guessing based on what other teams think about who the Orioles like.
Another reason it's hard to say is that there are six picks ahead of the O's and there are a lot of permutations of players who could be available to the Orioles, which might lead to them choosing different guys depending on who falls down to their pick and who doesn't. The baseball media does its best to make guesses about who the Orioles like and who they would pick.
Across five national baseball media outlets, there are four different mock picks for the Orioles at #7 . That seems like a good set of names to have in mind for who could be picked. Some of these outlets could do a final mock on the day of the draft. For now, these are the most recent mocks across the prospect-writing world:
Who could the Orioles pick? No one can say for sure, for a variety of reasons. One is that the Orioles front office keeps a tight ship and they do not have their business leaking out to the media often. When it comes to the draft, that means that anything like a mock draft is usually just guessing based on what other teams think about who the Orioles like.
Another reason it's hard to say is that there are six picks ahead of the O's and there are a lot of permutations of players who could be available to the Orioles, which might lead to them choosing different guys depending on who falls down to their pick and who doesn't. The baseball media does its best to make guesses about who the Orioles like and who they would pick.
Across five national baseball media outlets, there are four different mock picks for the Orioles at #7 . That seems like a good set of names to have in mind for who could be picked. Some of these outlets could do a final mock on the day of the draft. For now, these are the most recent mocks across the prospect-writing world:
19 days ago
