ABERDEEN, Md. – Justin Lord, the pitching coach for Single-A Wilmington, has been able to work with several high draft picks this season.
Two of them are Cade Cavalli, a first-round pick last year out of Oklahoma, and Mitchell Parker, who went in the fifth round in 2020 out of a Texas junior college to the Nationals.
There has been mixed results with the two – Cavalli has jumped up to Double-A Harrisburg this season while Parker has split time between low Single-A Fredericksburg and high Single-A Wilmington.
“Mitchell has three really good pitches,” Lord told Federal Baseball this week during the series at Ripken Stadium against Aberdeen.