Surveying the class of prospects for the 2019 MLB Draft over the weekend, Washington Nationals’ Assistant GM and VP of Scouting Ops Kris Kline said there was some starting pitching at the top of the draft, but overall it was a position player-heavy group.
“You build a championship team through the middle with catching, shortstops, center fielder, front-line pitching,” Kline explained, in an interview with MASN’s Dan Kolko on Sunday.
“But those guys are hard to find, they’re not always there, and in this particular draft, there’s not a lot of pitching.