The daily routine of sitting down to watch your favorite baseball team is not often a fun one for fans of the Orioles in 2021. Some day down the road, this will not be the case any more. When that some day will arrive may depend on when (or, gulp, if) some of the prospects drafted or acquired in the last couple of years of Dan Duquette’s tenure start to pan out.
It’s now been four years since the 2017 MLB draft. Especially when you consider the pandemic disruption to the 2020 minor league season, there’s still time for high school players from that draft class to develop.