Nicholas Robert Raquet (born December 12, 1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Washington Nationals organization. A Centre County, Pennsylvania, native, Raquet attended State College Area High School and went on to pitch for the Tar Heels at the University of North Carolina in 2015. He transferred to the College of William & Mary for the 2017 spring season, where he struggled to a 4.66 ERA, although he led the Tribe in strikeouts. Despite his high ERA, the Nationals used their third-round selection in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft on Raquet, with CBS Sports opining that the left-hander "has much better stuff than his spring stats would suggest". His drafting by the Nationals made him the third-highest-drafted William & Mary baseball player at the time. Raquet signed with the Nationals on June 20, 2017, and was assigned to the Gulf Coast League Nationals, quickly moving up to the Auburn Doubledays and finishing the season there. In 12 combined starts between the Nationals and the Doubledays, he posted a 3-2 record with a 2.36 ERA and a 1.22 WHIP. In 2018, Raquet progressed through Class-A baseball, earning a June promotion from the Hagerstown Suns to the more advanced Potomac Nationals. "MLB Pipeline" ranked Raquet as the Nationals' sixteenth-best prospect before the start of the 2018 season. After the 2019 season, Raquet was one of eleven Nationals prospects who played for the Surprise Saguaros in the Arizona Fall League. At the time he was drafted, Raquet's fastball sat in the low 90s but could touch 96 mph for extended periods. He complements the fastball with secondary pitches that include a changeup. Jhon Jairo Romero (born January 17, 1995) is a Colombian professional baseball pitcher in the Washington Nationals organization. As a boy, Romero played catcher, but he began finding success as a pitcher as he matured. Older than most international amateurs when he joined a professional baseball organization, Romero was 20 years old when the Chicago Cubs signed him out of Colombia in 2015 and assigned him to their Dominican Summer League affiliate. At the time, Cubs scout Manuel Esquivia said the organization envisioned him as a possible future closer, as he touched in his tryout with the Chicago organization. After spending two seasons in the Dominican Summer League, Romero was assigned to the Cubs' stateside affiliates in the 2017 season and shot through the low minors, rising from the Arizona League Cubs to the short-season Eugene Emeralds of the Northwest League before finishing out the season with the South Bend Cubs of the Midwest League.