When Stone Garrett suffered a season-ending ankle injury in late August this past summer, the Nationals decided to call up 24-year-old, 2021 7th Round pick Jacob Young, a University of Florida product who’d worked his way up from A-ball to Double-A to Triple-A this season, putting up a combined .305/.376/.418 line along the way.
“He’s a well-above average runner,” Kris Kline, then the Director of Scouting Ops for the club, who is now a Special Assistant to Nats’ GM Mike Rizzo, said, in offering a scouting report on Young after the second night of the 2021 Draft.
“He can throw, he’s a really good hitter, the thing that I loved about the bat was just his ability to grind out at bats.