The Yankees and Mets selected highly regarded high school shortstops with their top picks in the 2023 MLB Draft, continuing a recent emphasis on the position by both teams. George Lombard Jr. went 26th overall to the Yankees on Sunday after a standout career at the Miami-area Gulliver Preparatory School. Colin Houck of Georgia’s Parkview High School then went to the Mets with the 32nd pick. The Mets later used the 56th pick on Brandon Sproat, a hard-throwing right-handed pitcher from the University of Florida, whom they originally drafted last year but failed to sign. In Lombard, the Yankees get a 6-foot-3, 190-pound talent with major league lineage.