Nationals conclude 2013 First-Year Player Draft

The Washington Nationals today selected 30 players on the third day of Major League Baseball's 2013 First-Year Player Draft. Nationals Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo, Nationals Assistant General Manager & Vice President of Player Personnel Roy Clark and Nationals Director of Scouting Kris Kline made the joint announcement. Over the three-day Draft, the Nationals selected a total of 39 players: 14 right-handed pitchers, eight left-handed pitchers, one catcher, 11 infielders and five outfielders. Of Washington's 39 selections, 21 came from four-year universities, nine from the high school ranks, and nine were junior college players. 2nd round (68th overall pick)- Jacob Johansen, RHP, Dallas Baptist University 3rd (105) - Drew Ward, 3B, Leedy (Okla.) High School 4th (136) - Nicholas Pivetta, RHP, New Mexico Junior College 5th (16) - Austin Voth, RHP, University of Washington 6th (196) - Cody Gunter, 3B, Grayson County (Texas) College 7th (226) - James Yezzo, 1B, Delaware 8th 256) - David Napoli, LHP, Tulane 9th (286) - Jake Joyce, RHP, Virginia Tech 10th (316) - Brennan Middleton, SS, Tulane 11th (346) - John Simms, RHP, Rice 12th (376) - Andrew Cooper, RHP, Sierra (Calif.) Junior College 13th (406) - John Costa, RHP, Palm Beach (Fla.) Community College 14th (436) - David Masters, SS, Cental Arizona College 15th (466) - William Ballou, OF, Marshall 16th (496) - Willie Allen, OF, Western Oklahoma State College 17th (526) - Geoffrey Perrott, C, Rice 18th (556) - Cory Bafidis, LHP, Wake Forest 19th (586) - Niko Spezial, LHP, Texas Wesleyan 20th (616) - Brenton Allen, OF, UCLA 21st (646) - Justin Thomas, LHP, Southern Arkansas 22nd (676) - Cody Dent, SS, FLorida 23rd (706) - Garrett Gordon, OF, Wabash Valley (Ill.) College 24th (736) - Matthew Derosier, RHP, Southwestern (Calif.) Community College 25th (766) - Travis Ott, LHP, Shippensburg (Pa.) High School 26th (796) - Garrett Hampson, SS, Reno (Nev.) High School 27th (826) - Bryce Harman, OF, L.C. Bird (Va.) High School 28th (856) - Joey Webb, LHP, Menlo (Calif.) College 29th (886) - Michael Sylvestri, RHP, Florida Atlantic 30th (916) - Ryan Ullmann, RHP, Concordia (Texas) University 31st (946) - Willie Medina, SS, High Point 32nd (976) - Pat Boling, LHP, Georgia 33rd (1006) - Andrew Dunlap, RHP, Westbury (Texas) Christsian 34th (1036) - Jake Walsh, LHP, Missouri 35th (1066) - Lukas Schiraldi, RHP, Navarro (Texas) Junior College 36th (1096) - Reid Humphreys, SS, Northwest Rankin (Miss.) High School 37th (1126) - Karsten Whitson, RHP, Florida 38th (1156) - Caleb Hamilton, SS, Woodinville (Wash.) High School 39th (1186) - Robbie Tenerowicz, 2B, Campolindo (Calif.) High School 40th (1216) - Shaun Anderson, RHP, American Heritage (Fla.) High School