It will be interim GM Mike DeBartolo who leads the club through this defining stretch and even runs the Nats' draft room on July 13 and 14. All of these challenges and crosscurrents combine for a series of obvious questions: where do the Nationals stand right now as an organization and what they must do to get back to the long stretch of success that culminated in the championship campaign of 2019?

This is my next-to-last mock draft of the 2025 draft cycle, with an updated 3.1 version coming hours before Round 1 begins Sunday. And remember, this is the order in which I think the players will come off the board,