MASN article on O's drafting history didn't make me feel good at all....

[DocJJ]

After describing a failed first round pick on lefty pitcher Chris Smith, the article went on to say:

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The Orioles have their own list that they’re trying to live down. First-round selections who crashed and burned.

Outfielder Dallas Williams in 1976, outfielder Drungo Hazewood in 1977, pitcher Joe Kucharski in 1982, pitcher Chris Myers in 1987, outfielder Mark Smith in 1991, pitcher Alvie Shepherd in 1995, outfielder Rick Elder in 1998, pitcher Beau Hale in 2000, pitcher Adam Loewen in 2002, catcher/infielder Brandon Snyder in 2005, infielder Billy Rowell in 2006 and pitcher Matt Hobgood in 2009.

I’m just naming a few.

It didn’t work out in Baltimore for catcher-turned-outfielder Jayson Werth and outfielder Darnell McDonald. They were chosen in the first round in 1997.

More was expected of left-hander Brian Matusz, taken with the fourth overall pick in 2008. A starter out of the University of San Diego who had brief success as a lefty specialist.

Special recognition goes to the 1999 group of Mike Paradis, Richard Stahl, Larry Bigbie, Keith Reed, Josh Cenate and Scott Rice. The draft that could have changed the course of the franchise instead of setting it back for many, many years.

The Orioles failed to sign pitchers Brad DuVall in 1987 and Wade Townsend in 2004. They thought they were dealt aces with Dylan Bundy in 2011 and Kevin Gausman in 2012, but it wasn’t in the cards.

 

[BohKnowsBmore]

1 minute ago, DocJJ said:

Outfielder Dallas Williams in 1976, outfielder Drungo Hazewood in 1977, pitcher Joe Kucharski in 1982

Considering Mike Elias was born in 1982 and this is only his second draft, I doubt past failures have much relevance on current regime.

[sevastras]

Man, your hair has been on fire. Calm down a little. 
Also, I will maintain that Matusz was screwed up by the system and Buck.  He needed more kid gloves and letting him be himself to flourish and they tinkered with him to no end and messed up his head.  I see him as the opposite result of Greinke and how he was allowed to figure himself out and worked his way through his own head issues.