Will Robertson’s path from Orioles minor leaguer to running the draft – The Baltimore Banner

Orioles vice president of domestic scouting Will Robertson will run the team’s draft for the first time this weekend. (Todd Olszewski/Baltimore Orioles) Will Robertson had time on his hands. The 30th-round senior-sign out of Davidson paid back the signing bonus he received to be an operations analyst at a Charlotte, North Carolina, media company to sign for $2,500 and give pro ball a shot with the Orioles. He was shuttling around the low minors in 2019 and eventually landed on the phantom injured list. He wasn’t hurt, but there wasn’t a spot for him on the active roster. “I’m old for the level, I’m struggling — time to think about what’s next,” he said. But the last innings of his pro career came in the early innings of a new era of baseball in Baltimore, when Mike Elias was hired to overhaul the organization and bring data-driven decision-making to the Orioles. Only then did it dawn on Robertson, who says his only two interests were math and baseball, that his life could involve both. “It’s just wild that it wasn’t more obvious when I was 10 years old that this was what I should want to do,” Robertson, 31, said.
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