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Holy Ghost Prep's Nolan Jones Weighing Options After Draft

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- It's been quite the last couple of weeks for Nolan Jones.

The infielder from Holy Ghost Prep High School in Bensalem was selected in the second round of the Major League Baseball Draft back on June 9th by the Cleveland Indians.

Related: Holy Ghost Prep SS Nolan Jones A Possible First-Round Selection

"I really can't even describe it," Jones tells KYW Newsradio. "There's no words to put it (into), the feeling isn't describable. It still hasn't sunk in to me yet that I could potentially be a professional baseball player at 18 years old, but it's really indescribable, honestly."

Listen to the entire interview with Nolan Jones:

 

Jones says potentially because he is weighing two pretty attractive options right now. He could sign with the Indians, or decide to play college baseball for one of the nation's top teams in the University of Virginia.

He talks about when he really started to think getting drafted was a true possibility.

"I think before the season started at our workouts," Jones says. "We had a lot of people contacting us to come to our workouts. But I don't think it was really like a 'wow' factor until our first game when I started seeing twenty scouts at our first game, thirty at our next and then they just increasingly kept coming back and coming back and coming back."

He hit .636 as a senior in high school with five home runs and 24 RBI in 19 games and also had success as a right-handed reliever on the mound.

"I definitely think my bat is my strongest point," Jones says. "A lot of the scouts in the summer told me they think that I could be a pitcher at the next level. But I thought that there's so many right-handed pitchers that throw in the low to mid 90's, that I wouldn't be special. I think my left-handed power bat is what makes me special."

Jones also starred for the Philly Bandits, an elite summer travel team.

He has until July 15th to decide whether or not to sign with the Cleveland organization.

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