2022 MLB Draft: Nationals consider Elijah Eco-friendly at No. 5

The Washington Nationals picked Florida prep outfielder Elijah Inexperienced with the fifth decide on in Significant League Baseball’s 2022 newbie draft on Sunday evening. Eco-friendly was the second outfielder taken, subsequent Druw Jones, who went No. 2 general to the Arizona Diamondbacks. 

Green was ranked as the No. 5 prospect in the course in June by CBS Athletics. This is what we wrote at the time:

Environmentally friendly is a interesting and polarizing prospect, a walking case in point of bimodal distribution who would seem to inspire forecasts invoking only his still left- and correct-tail outcomes. To hear most scouts notify it, he’s either going to make several All-Star Video games, or he’s heading to wash out ahead of getting arbitration qualified. His boosters place to his in close proximity to-elite energy and pace mixture, as well as his likely to enjoy centre subject regardless of remaining stated at 6-foot-3 and 225 lbs .. (This is the place we observe, to minimal shock, that his father Eric played in the NFL.) Conversely, Green’s critics say that his match desires a great deal of refinement for him to max out his instruments, and that his intense swing-and-miss out on tendencies will cause him to deviate, from currently being a purple-incredibly hot chili pepper to not, more commonly than John Frusciante. He’s heading to be selected early for the reason that perceived ceilings as superior as his never occur around frequently then all over again, perceived flooring as minimal as his never, either.

Eco-friendly attended IMG Academy, which has manufactured a quantity of large-league players, together with Paolo Espino and Chris Pérez.

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