As we get further and further away from 2018, the last draft run by Dan Duquette & Co. (they took Grayson Rodriguez in the first round), it’s becoming possible to give a more complete verdict on what the old Orioles regime did well and did badly.
It was the single biggest knock on the Duquette-era Orioles: they couldn’t draft or develop pitching talent. The ledger includes first-rounders Dylan Bundy, Kevin Gausman, Hunter Harvey, and Cody Sedlock.
Now flash back to 2019, when the Orioles Top 30 prospects list featured these pitchers: DL Hall (#3), Rodriguez (#5), Keegan Akin (#6), Zac Lowther (#8), Dean Kremer (#9), Blaine Knight (#10), Brenan Hanifee (#11), Harvey (#12), Dillon Tate (#18), Luis Ortiz (#19), Zach Pop (#20), Cody Carroll (#21), Branden Kline (#22), Mike Baumann (#27), Alex Wells (#28) and Drew Rom (#29).