Washington Nationals’ Assistant GM and VP of Scouting Ops Kris Kline was asked after the second night of the 2022 MLB Draft had concluded if he expected to sign all the players the Nats drafted.
“Yes,” he said without hesitation.
“Yes, and they’re all big leaguers,” Mark Baca, the Assistant Director of Amateur Scouting added with a laugh.
“The philosophy is always you take the best player available,” Kline said on the first night of the draft, when asked about the organization’s approach and their decision-making in their selections, “... and if there’s a stumbling block there where the money gets too high, then there are certain times when you have to walk away, but fortunately for us this year, you’re picking at the top and your pool is large, so when you take a chance to take a guy like Elijah [Green] there, that’s a very good thing.