Washington Nationals Agree to Terms with No. 2 Overall Pick Dylan Crews
The Washington Nationals have agreed to terms with No. 2 overall draft pick Dylan Crews.
MLB Insider Jon Heyman had the report on social media:
No. 2 overall pick Dylan Crews, LSU OF, agrees to terms with Nats. About $9M. (Slot $8,988,500).
This continues a great stretch for Crews, who was named the Golden Spikes Award winner as the best player in college baseball and also helped lead LSU to a College World Series title.
He hit a whopping .426 this season with 18 homers and 70 RBI for the Tigers, all while posting an absurd .567 on-base percentage. He was taken one pick after his LSU teammate, Paul Skenes, who went No. 1 to the Pirates.
The Nationals have been stuck in a lengthy rebuild since winning the World Series in 2019 but they've restocked the farm system through blockbuster trades of Max Scherzer, Trea Turner and Juan Soto, so the future is looking brighter in DC.
There's no timetable on when Crews could arrive in Washington but you'd have to imagine he's at least a few seasons away. Perhaps by that time, the current young core of Nationals players will have sprouted into a contender.
For more on Crews, here's a small portion of his MLB.com draft profile:
MLB Pipeline's top-rated position player in the 2023 Draft, Crews is a plus-plus hitter with plus power and some evaluators are even more bullish on his bat. He hits the ball as hard and as consistently as any collegian, thanks to a quick right-handed stroke, the strength and leverage in his 6-foot frame and a selectively aggressive approach. After creating some mild swing-and-miss concerns last summer, he's controlling the strike zone and making contact better than ever, repeatedly hammering velocity and quality pitching.
A good athlete, Crews is showing more speed than in the past, with plus run times out of the batter's box despite taking a big swing and well-above-average quickness once he gets going.
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