“I couldn’t tell you who we were going to take even if I wanted to. We pick fifth, and we’re going to put our board together and the guy who’s on top of the board at the time we draft, we’re going to take.”
Washington Nationals General Manager, Mike Rizzo, said the above to 106.7 the FAN in D.C.’s Sports Junkies earlier this month as the team looked ahead to the 2022 MLB Draft.
Rizzo has always valued the draft a lot, coming from a scouting background, but with the Nationals still staring down the barrel of a rebuild that currently sees them as one of the worst teams in the league, this year’s draft takes on added significance and pressure.