In discussing the decision to go with high school right-hander Mason Denaburg with their top pick of the 2018 MLB Draft, Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo told 106.7 the FAN in D.C.’s Sports Junkies that Denaburg projected as a top of the rotation arm.
“We felt that this player has a chance to be a front of the rotation starter,” Rizzo said in his weekly interview the Junkies last month.
“Now there’s some projection and development that has to go into it, but rather than taking a college pitcher that we know who he is but it’s only a back end starter we went for upside with this player.