Prospects; Photo from the Nationals
While the top prospects get most of the page time for all teams, today we are going to look at some of the players on our watch list who could step up into the top prospects’ spotlight in the Washington Nationals system. With a revamped player development staff in place, the hopes are we can, for once, see a Nationals draft pick, who was not a Top-15 pick, emerge as a star. It has never happened for the Washington Nationals in their history. You could really say that the Nats have never had a star emerge from the draft after the 6th pick. This is why general manager Mike Rizzo finally has made drastic changes in his player development department, led by De Jon Watson. Continue reading
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