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‘From the ground up:’ Orioles’ top pick Heston Kjerstad’s growth mirrors that of the family water business

As Heston Kjerstad awaits the call to get on with the business of proving his power-hitting potential as the Orioles’ top 2020 draft pick, it’s no small consolation to the Kjerstads that he can get on with business of another sort: the family one.

While home in Amarillo, Texas, preparing for the MLB draft and keeping his game sharp, the second overall pick has been back to work at the Water Still, the Kjerstads’ thriving distilled water and tea shop that’s both influenced his baseball growth and mirrored his own rise.

“We started from the ground up,” Jody Kjerstad said of the business, one she believes her son has the mind to be a part of if it were not for the way he developed his knack for hitting in precisely the same methodical manner.