Question about the phrase "tap somebody as [a position]"

"Tap"(6. ​[transitive, usually passive] tap somebody (North American English) to choose somebody to do a particular job) is a synonym of "appoint" when it means "to select for an office or position", and there is a phrase "tap somebody as [a position]".

However, I encounter this sentence:

To lead that effort, he has tapped as his foreign minister Ernesto Araújo, a Trump-loving antiglobalist who wants to prioritize relations with the United States.

—Making Brazil great again: How Jair Bolsonaro mirrors and courts Trump in the Washington Post (Dec. 31, 2018).

Question:

Is this sentence correct in grammar, and is this usage common in English?

In some phrases, you can change the order of words, like "give sth. to sb. = give sb. sth.", but the order above (tap as [a position] sombody) is too awkward, and I never saw such change of order in a phrase before. Is such change of order in a phrase common in English?

Edit:

Someone told me that if the clause was "he tapped Ernesto Araujo as his foreign minister, a Trump-loving antiglobalist…", there would be a stylistic weakness with the following clause since the description of Araujo is closest to "foreign minister" and thus the sentence is awkward.

What do you think of such claim?

Edit 2:

In another article days after (Jan. 3, 2019), there was also such usage in the Washington Post.

Trump aides say the president never came close to tapping him(Romney).

— Romney asserts his independence from Trump — and Trump’s defenders return his searing criticism of the president