This time last year, the Orioles brought six players into their organization in a shortened Major League Baseball draft with no idea when they’d get them onto a field to bring out their talents.
Now that they finally have, that 2020 draft class and their 2019 predecessors — who would have made their full-season debuts last year if not for the COVID-19 pandemic — are more than making up for lost time.
For an organization that has so much riding on building through the draft and player development, the success in the first month-plus of the minor league season for the dozens of players they selected over the past two drafts is encouraging.