# List of Baltimore Orioles first-round draft picks

The Baltimore Orioles are a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in Baltimore, Maryland. They play in the American League East division. Since the institution of MLB's Rule 4 Draft, the Orioles have selected 60 players in the first round. Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft", the Rule 4 Draft is MLB's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings, with the team possessing the worst record receiving the first pick. In addition, teams which lost free agents in the previous off-season may be awarded compensatory or supplementary picks.
Of the 60 players picked in the first round by Baltimore, 30 have been pitchers, the most of any position; 21 of them were right-handed, while 9 were left-handed. Twelve outfielders, eight shortstops, seven catchers, two third basemen, and one second basemen were also taken. The team has never drafted a player at first base. 16 of the players came from high schools or universities in the state of California, and Florida follows with five players. The Orioles have also drafted two players from Canada, Ntema Ndungidi (1997) and Adam Loewen (2002). The Orioles have not drafted any players from their home state of Maryland.
Two players have won a championship with the team; Bobby Grich (1967), who was a part of the 1970 World Series championship team, and Rich Dauer (1974), who was a part of the 1983 World Series championship team. Mike Mussina (1990) is the only of the Orioles' first-round picks to have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. One pick, Gregg Olson (1988), has won the MLB Rookie of the Year Award; he won the award in 1989. The Orioles had the first overall selection three times in the draft, which they used on Ben McDonald (1989), Adley Rutschman (2019), and Jackson Holliday (2022). Jayson Werth (1997) was originally drafted as a catcher, but was converted to a right fielder, and primarily plays that position in the major leagues.
The Orioles have made 11 selections in the supplemental round of the draft and six compensatory picks since the institution of the First-Year Player Draft in 1965. These additional picks are provided when a team loses a particularly valuable free agent in the previous off-season, or, more recently, if a team fails to sign a draft pick from the previous year. The Orioles have failed to sign two of their first-round picks, Brad DuVall (1987) and Wade Townsend (2004). They received the 28th pick in 1988 and the 48th pick in 2005 for failing to sign DuVall and Townsend, respectively, as compensation.

## Key

| Year | Each year links to an article about that year's Major League Baseball Draft. |
| Position | Indicates the secondary/collegiate position at which the player was drafted, rather than the professional position the player may have gone on to play |
| Pick | Indicates the number of the pick |
| * | Player did not sign with the Orioles |
| § | Indicates a supplemental pick |
| '70 | Player was a member of the Orioles' 1970 championship team |
| '83 | Player was a member of the Orioles' 1983 championship team |

## Picks

| Year | Name | Position | School (location) | Pick |
| 1965 | Scott McDonald | Right-handed pitcher | Marquette High School (Yakima, Washington) | 15 |
| 1966 | Ted Parks | Shortstop | University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California) | 16 |
| 1967 | Bobby Grich '70 | Shortstop | Wilson Classical High School (Long Beach, California) | 19 |
| 1968 | Junior Kennedy | Shortstop | Arvin High School (Arvin, California) | 10 |
| 1969 | Don Hood | Left-handed pitcher | Southside High School (Florence, South Carolina) | 17 |
| 1970 | James West | Catcher | Vashon High School (St. Louis, Missouri) | 24 |
| 1971 | Randy Stein | Right-handed pitcher | Ganesha High School (Pomona, California) | 23 |
| 1972 | Ken Thomas | Catcher | Clear Fork High School (Bellville, Ohio) | 24 |
| 1973 | Mike Parrott | Right-handed pitcher | Adolfo Camarillo High School (Camarillo, California) | 15 |
| 1974 | Rich Dauer '83 | Shortstop | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) | 24 |
| 1975 | Dave Ford | Right-handed pitcher | Lincoln-West High School (Cleveland, Ohio) | 23 |
| 1976 | Dallas Williams | Outfielder | Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn, New York) | 20 |
| 1977 | Drungo Hazewood | Catcher | Sacramento High School (Sacramento, California) | 19 |
| 1978 | Robert Boyce | Third baseman | Deer Park High School (Cincinnati, Ohio) | 22 |
| 1979 | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick |
| 1980 | Jeff Williams | Outfielder | Princeton High School (Cincinnati, Ohio) | 26 |
| 1981 | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick |
| 1982 | Joe Kucharski | Right-handed pitcher | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) | 24 |
| 1983 | Wayne Wilson | Right-handed pitcher | Redondo Beach High School (Redondo Beach, California) | 25 |
| 1984 | John Hoover | Right-handed pitcher | California State University, Fresno (Fresno, California) | 25 |
| 1985 | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick |
| 1986 | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick |
| 1987 | Chris Myers | Left-handed pitcher | Plant High School (Tampa, Florida) | 7 |
| 1987 | Brad DuVall* | Right-handed pitcher | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Virginia) | 15 |
| 1987 | Pete Harnisch | Right-handed pitcher | Fordham University (Bronx, New York) | 27§ |
| 1988 | Gregg Olson | Right-handed pitcher | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) | 4 |
| 1988 | Ricky Gutiérrez | Shortstop | American High School (Miami, Florida) | 28§ |
| 1989 | Ben McDonald | Right-handed pitcher | Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) | 1 |
| 1990 | Mike Mussina$^†$ | Right-handed pitcher | Stanford University (Stanford, California) | 20 |
| 1991 | Mark Smith | Outfielder | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) | 9 |
| 1992 | Jeffrey Hammonds | Outfielder | Stanford University (Stanford, California) | 4 |
| 1993 | Jay Powell | Right-handed pitcher | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) | 19 |
| 1994 | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick |
| 1995 | Alvie Shepherd | Right-handed pitcher | University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Lincoln, Nebraska) | 21 |
| 1996 | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick |
| 1997 | Jayson Werth | Catcher | Glenwood High School (Chatham, Illinois) | 22 |
| 1997 | Darnell McDonald | Outfielder | Cherry Creek High School (Englewood, Colorado) | 26 |
| 1997 | Ntema Ndungidi | Outfielder | Edouard Montpetit High School (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) | 36§ |
| 1998 | Rick Elder | Outfielder | Sprayberry High School (Marietta, Georgia) | 26 |
| 1998 | Mamon Tucker | Outfielder | Stephen F. Austin High School (Austin, Texas) | 39§ |
| 1999 | Mike Paradis | Right-handed pitcher | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) | 13 |
| 1999 | Richard Stahl | Left-handed pitcher | Newton County High School (Covington, Georgia) | 18 |
| 1999 | Larry Bigbie | Outfielder | Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana) | 21 |
| 1999 | Keith Reed | Outfielder | Providence College (Providence, Rhode Island) | 23 |
| 1999 | Joshua Cenate | Left-handed pitcher | Jefferson High School (Charles Town, West Virginia) | 34§ |
| 1999 | Scott Rice | Left-handed pitcher | Royal High School (Simi Valley, California) | 44§ |
| 1999 | Brian Roberts | Shortstop | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) | 50§ |
| 2000 | Beau Hale | Right-handed pitcher | University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas) | 14 |
| 2000 | Tripper Johnson | Right-handed pitcher | Newport High School (Bellevue, Washington) | 32§ |
| 2001 | Chris Smith | Left-handed pitcher | Cumberland University (Lebanon, Tennessee) | 7 |
| 2001 | Mike Fontenot | Second baseman | Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) | 19 |
| 2001 | Bryan Bass | Shortstop | Seminole High School (Seminole, Florida) | 31§ |
| 2002 | Adam Loewen | Left-handed pitcher | Fraser Valley Christian High School (Surrey, British Columbia, Canada) | 4 |
| 2003 | Nick Markakis | Outfielder | Young Harris College (Young Harris, Georgia) | 7 |
| 2004 | Wade Townsend* | Right-handed pitcher | Rice University (Houston, Texas) | 8 |
| 2005 | Brandon Snyder | Catcher | Westfield High School (Centreville, Virginia) | 13 |
| 2005 | Garrett Olson | Left-handed pitcher | California Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo, California) | 48§ |
| 2006 | Billy Rowell | Third baseman | Bishop Eustace Preparatory School (Gloucester, New Jersey) | 9 |
| 2006 | Pedro Beato | Right-handed pitcher | St. Petersburg College (St. Petersburg, Florida) | 32§ |
| 2007 | Matt Wieters | Catcher | Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia) | 5 |
| 2008 | Brian Matusz | Left-handed pitcher | University of San Diego (San Diego, California) | 4 |
| 2009 | Matt Hobgood | Right-handed pitcher | Norco High School (Norco, California) | 5 |
| 2010 | Manny Machado | Shortstop | Brito High School (Miami, Florida) | 3 |
| 2011 | Dylan Bundy | Right-handed pitcher | Owasso High School (Owasso, Oklahoma) | 4 |
| 2012 | Kevin Gausman | Right-handed pitcher | Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) | 4 |
| 2013 | Hunter Harvey | Right-handed pitcher | Bandys High School (Catawba, NC) | 22 |
| 2013 | Josh Hart | Center fielder | Parkview High School (Lilburn, Georgia) | 37§ |
| 2014 | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick |
| 2015 | DJ Stewart | Outfielder | Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) | 25 |
| 2015 | Ryan Mountcastle | Shortstop | Paul J. Hagerty High School (Oviedo, Florida) | 36§ |
| 2016 | Cody Sedlock | Right-handed pitcher | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, Illinois) | 27§ |
| 2017 | DL Hall | Left-handed pitcher | Valdosta High School (Valdosta, Georgia) | 21 |
| 2018 | Grayson Rodriguez | Right-handed pitcher | Central Heights High School (Nacogdoches, Texas) | 11 |
| 2019 | Adley Rutschman | Catcher | Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) | 1 |
| 2020 | Heston Kjerstad | Outfielder | University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas) | 2 |
| 2021 | Colton Cowser | Outfielder | Sam Houston State (Huntsville, Texas) | 5 |
| 2022 | Jackson Holliday | Shortstop | Stillwater High School (Stillwater, Oklahoma) | 1 |
| 2023 | Enrique Bradfield Jr. | Outfielder | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) | 17 |
| 2024 | Vance Honeycutt | Outfielder | University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) | 22 |