Tonight, the Washington Nationals will make their first and second round selections in this year’s MLB Draft. You can watch the first round on MLB Network at 7 p.m ET. For the last few weeks, we have profiled many different players the Nats could take with the 25th pick, but there’s been one main theme: pitching.
When the Nats traded away Lucas Giolito, Reynaldo Lopez, and Dane Dunning over the winter, it left a gaping hole in their farm system for upper level staring rotation options.