With their eighth round selection in the 2023 draft, the 246th overall pick, the Mets Boston Baro, a shortstop from the Capistrano Valley High School in Mission Viejo, California.
The Capistrano Unified School District is seeing a continual decline in student enrollment numbers in recent years, which educators said is the result of a variety of factors including an aging residential population and upheavals from the COVID-19 pandemic.