Can we at least say since the draft era started that this is the most talent the system as ever had? The Orioles were fantastic in finding talent before the draft, but they were never a great drafting team until Elias came here.
The Orioles were outstanding at trading for talent more than drafting talent in the late 60s and throughout the 70s. Sure the 1967 draft netted Baylor and Grich, and the 1973 draft netted Eddie Murray in the 3rd round, but the Orioles run as the best team AL team of the 70s was not really built on drafted talent.
Once free agency became a thing, it spelled doom for the Orioles and led them to the 1984-1995 drought, that was only changed by Peter Angelos trying his best Steinbrenner impersonation by buying his way to a championship. The Orioles were absolutely at brutal drafting in the 80s and only slightly better in the 90s. The 2000s and especially the 2010s were a little better as Rajisch was actually pretty decent before Elias took over.
Now, between Elias and his staff's drafting and the international program under Koby Perez, this organization is the best it's ever been. Now, will this group of players in the system right now outperform the youngsters of 1966? That's remains to be seen, but I think we're going to be able to take this organization's players that were drafted or signed internationally, and find out they will produce the most major league WAR of any Orioles organization of the past.