O's draft Rafael Palmeiro's son with 7th-round pick

With their seventh-round pick in the 2016 MLB Draft, the Baltimore Orioles grabbed the son of one of the most accomplished players in franchise history, selecting North Carolina State product Preston Palmeiro - son of Rafael Palmeiro - with the 211th overall selection Friday.

Palmeiro, a 6-foot-1, 190-pound first baseman, built upon a strong sophomore season this spring, hitting .327/.411/.527 with eight homers and 20 doubles in 55 games for the Wolfpack, but wasn't ranked among Baseball America's top-100 draft-eligible NCAA players. Though he doesn't project to be a star, Palmeiro is regarded as an intelligent hitter with gap power and decent bat speed.

Rafael's legacy remains tarnished by the failed drug test that came just six weeks after he vehemently denied taking performance-enhancing drugs in front of Congress, but the elder Palmeiro's MLB stats are virtually unrivaled. To this day, he is one of just five players ever to amass 3,000 hits and 500 home runs, and only 14 players drove in more runs than Palmeiro (1,835).