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Stone Bridge High's JB Bukauskas Gets MLB Buzz

Spotlight on one of Ashburn's top talents in Washington Post feature.

Major League Baseball scouts have been focusing attention on Stone Bridge High's standout right-hand pitcher JB Bukauskas.

The Washington Post took a look at the sea of scouts pointing their radar guns at Bukauskas' "flame-throwing" arm. 

Keith Law, ESPN’s lead baseball analyst for Scouts Inc., told the paper that Bukauskas would be picked in the top two rounds. “If the draft was held today — just given the velocity, the size, and he’s a good, bright kid going to Chapel Hill — he’d be in line for a seven-figure bonus," Law said.

Read more of The Washington Post feature.


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