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NHSI STANDOUTS

USA Baseball’s National High School Invitational returned in 2022 for the first time since 2019 after losing the past two years to the pandemic. The event is one of the biggest high school tournaments in the country and routinely puts some of the best prep draft prospects on center stage in Cary, N.C.

Here are five 2022 prospects who improved their draft stock at the event, led by the top overall pitcher in the class.

Dylan Lesko, RHP

Buford (Ga.) HS

Lesko matched up with righthander Caden Dana of Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, N.J., in the first round of the tournament—the

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