After another year of loading up on college hitters at the expensive of pitching in the first two days of the 2021 MLB draft, Orioles domestic scouting supervisor Brad Ciolek expected that to change on the draft’s final day Tuesday.
“We do extensive research on our pitchers and we start preparing and looking at analytics on pitchers probably about a month and a half ago,” Ciolek said after the second day ended Monday. “But ultimately for each spot that we’re out, we have to figure out, ‘OK is taking this guy worth the risk over a position player or a bat?