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The Orioles should stop drafting pitchers in the first round. For whatever reason, they can't develop them, indeed, they seem to wind up getting injured. It's like the Ravens drafting wide receivers in the first round-it just doesn't work out. Stick to hitters in the first round, until somebody figures out what the problem is with our minor league pitching development.

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Maybe the key is to investigate the workload some of today's pitchers have racked up before they even reached high school.

I can't say I'm sold on the notion that "polished" college pitchers have always played for coaches who had the player's best interests at heart either.

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Maybe the key is to investigate the workload some of today's pitchers have racked up before they even reached high school.

I can't say I'm sold on the notion that "polished" college pitchers have always played for coaches who had the player's best interests at heart either.

That would be a flag for Bundy but not Harvey.

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My philosophy would be to stay away from pitching in the 1st round and away from HS pitchers in the first 2-3 rounds. You can point to HS success stories like Kershaw and Bumgarner but they seem to be the exception. Pitching is so risky on two sides, living up to the potential and staying away from career altering injuries. It just seems so volatile. We've seen that you can trade hitting for pitching and young hitting for young pitching. There are always exceptions but it just seems like a more sound philosophy to me.

The red flag is "a very young pitching arm".

The Orioles need to just give up trying to draft pitchers in the early rounds. I'm not saying we should totally abandon it, but the organization really needs to try something different. Call it bad luck, ineptitude, call it whatever you want, but it just has not worked, and hasn't for a long time. The Orioles track record developing position players is much better - let's stick to our strengths.

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The Orioles need to just give up trying to draft pitchers in the early rounds. I'm not saying we should totally abandon it, but the organization really needs to try something different. Call it bad luck, ineptitude, call it whatever you want, but it just has not worked, and hasn't for a long time. The Orioles track record developing position players is much better - let's stick to our strengths.

Despite all the flack he receives Matusz ended up with a pretty decent career given his draft position, Gausman is doing fine.

I think folks underestimate the bust possibilities of position players.

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Pitchers for other teams never get hurt.

This team either can't evaluate pitching talent, develop it or both. Either way, they've been much better drafting position player talent in the first round over the years (Markakis, Wieters, Machado). I don't know why they have drafted so many more pitchers than position players over the years.

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Despite all the flack he receives Matusz ended up with a pretty decent career given his draft position, Gausman is doing fine.

I think folks underestimate the bust possibilities of position players.

If Matusz is the first name you point to as an example of the organizations ability to develop pitching, then that says it all. Guasman has promise, but the jury is still very much out on him.

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Despite all the flack he receives Matusz ended up with a pretty decent career given his draft position, Gausman is doing fine.

I think folks underestimate the bust possibilities of position players.

Tim Beckham is now considered a draft success.

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