The 2022 MLB Draft is only few days away. Last year MLB pushed the draft back to the All-Star break in an effort to excellent market the event, and that will be the norm moving forward many executives don't like it. The draft used to be held during first week of June. This year the three-day event start on Sunday, July 17.
This Orioles hold the No. 1 pick for the third time in franchise history and the second time in three years. They used their previous No. 1 picks on righty Ben McDonald (1989) and catcher Adley Rutschman (2019). Our R.J. Anderson ranked Rutschman the No. 1 prospect in baseball before the season. The O's called the switch-hitting backstop up to big leagues in May.
"I'm being very frank about it that the small list that we have that's five players long," O's GM Mike Elias told MLB.com earlier this month. "I feel like we are going to carry that for the next week up until the draft day, because we don't expect there's going to be a broad consensus in every corner of the organization of who to take ... I don't think we are going to really get much closer to narrowing things until the day of draft."
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