Washington Nationals: Pitching the biggest need heading into MLB Draft

With today being the MLB Draft, the Washington Nationals need to make pitching an emphasis in this year’s draft

Tonight, the Washington Nationals will make their first and second round selections in this year’s MLB Draft. You can watch the first round on MLB Network at 7 p.m ET. For the last few weeks, we have profiled many different players the Nats could take with the 25th pick, but there’s been one main theme: pitching.

When the Nats traded away Lucas Giolito, Reynaldo Lopez, and Dane Dunning over the winter, it left a gaping hole in their farm system for upper level staring rotation options. If you look at how the Nats system is ranked on MLB Pipeline, only five pitchers are on that list…