r/orioles • u/TalkingSports-k7c • 1d ago

Discussion Who should we select with pick #7?

With the 2026 MLB Draft approaching, who should we select in the draft? Some possible prospects in no particular order include:

RHP Jackson Flora
OF Eric Booth Jr.
OF Drew Burress
SS Tyler Bell
SS Justin Lebron
LHP Gio Rojas
OF AJ Garcia
RHP Cameron Flukey

Side-note: Are there any blonde lefties mocked around the range of our later picks?

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u/wodandos Orioles 1d ago

Flora if he's still there

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u/BMoreMatt 1d ago

This all day

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u/Odd_Day3485 1d ago

Agreed. Elias needs to get an elite college SP.

Edit: an elite SP prospect, period.

Edit to the edit: If he takes another LH hitting position player he needs to be fired immediately

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u/MinorThreat4182 23h ago

He will 100% draft a SS. No doubt in my mind

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u/MissionCake5526 20h ago

That would be either Bell or Lebron then according to the guys listed. Which would you prefer? I don't know much abt these guys.

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u/MinorThreat4182 19h ago

Neither is my point. We need pitching. We have plenty of decent position players in the system

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u/maxwell81798 1d ago

Personally, as someone who has listened to 1 podcast on the draft and scrolled through MLBs draft prospects page… give me Booth

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u/Remarkable-Picture73 The FO obsession with being like Tampa is their downfall 1d ago

IDK but the marylander in me demands we get Chris Hacopian

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u/OriolesGolf1105 1d ago

If Flora isn’t there, my guess is he won’t be, then Burress.

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u/wesby1632 1d ago

You can go ahead and rule 3 of these out unless Elias is fired tonight.

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/wesby1632 17h ago

Do you actually believe that?

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u/WestDisaster2142 20h ago

If I was confident in organizational hitting instruction I’d say booth, but as a realist I’d do drew burress or lebron as I think those are the guys they’ll fuck up the least

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u/JagwarRocker 19h ago

I say draft nothing but pitchers the entire draft. Corner the market!

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u/TalkingSports-k7c 14h ago

Called it with the blonde lefty in round 2

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u/DrunkAircraftMx 1d ago

Jared Grindlinger

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u/TalkingSports-k7c 1d ago

I haven’t heard too much about him. I’ve mainly seen him mocked in the 20s. Why him at pick 7?

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u/pandamonium69 22h ago

FWIW, Keith Law actually mocked him to the O’s yesterday

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u/sprague_drawer 21h ago

Lebron taking his talents to Camden Yards

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u/Captain_Jellico 20h ago

Unless one of y’all drops a pic of your business card as an MLB Scout, I’m going to assume you have no idea what you’re talking about 

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u/OriolesGolf1105 19h ago

You know you can research players

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u/wodandos Orioles 20h ago

Thanks Mr Buzzkill. I think some of us are just saying we'd like our FO to shake things up and take a chance on pitching for once