After selecting 18-year-old, high school outfielder Elijah Green with the 5th overall pick in the first round of the 2022 MLB Draft, the Washington Nationals went with a pitcher at No. 45 overall, with their second round pick, selecting lefty Jake Bennett out of the University of Oklahoma.
Bennett, 21, pitched with 2020 Nationals’ 1st Round pick Cade Cavalli both in high school and in college with the Sooners. He was a 39th Round pick by the Nats back in 2019, and they drafted him again this year, in the 2nd Round this time.
“While he won’t emulate Cavalli by becoming a first-rounder out of college,” MLB Pipeline’s scouts wrote, “.