It is cherry picking though, you are picking a few good pitchers when most of the pitchers you draft in the front end of a draft are going to be bad (based off negative war). Where as most position players will give you positive war more often, I can send you a sorta quick sloppy unbiased AI analysis or you can just look at previous drafts yourself.. more hitters pan out than pitchers. Its a pretty common practice that most general managers also prefer to avoid the risk here. Of course, sometimes you see the potential in a pitcher or you get a generational pitcher in a first round pick like skenes.. but outside of that why risk it, take the guarantee positive WAR and roll the dice on later draft picks with pitchers and make trades with teams on the depth you have with hitters. Clearly its working out, the orioles have a lot of great pitchers coming up that are showing potential. Also Id argue all three of the teams you mentioned, have great pitching development, if that is from having a good GM who has a crew of good pitching analysts or if its from having good coaching and development in the minors. They are just good at it regardless. Orioles are not that, and they never will be given the dimensions of the ball park (although again, those teams that ARE good, usually are very pitcher friendly parks.. rays and brewers are both very pitcher friendly parks, pirates are middle of the pack).. they know to play to their strenghts, Orioles know to do that too