The 2004 baseball draft certainly seemed like a disaster for the Orioles.
They selected Rice pitcher Wade Townsend in the first round only to spend a frustrating summer failing to sign him. The draft is dicey enough when teams sign their top picks. But it seemed the Orioles had whiffed entirely.
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