Matthew Crownover spent much of Tuesday afternoon on edge. For the first three hours of the Major League Baseball Draft’s second day, he patiently waited to see his name come across the bottom of the screen. Finally, on the next to last pick of the sixth round, he saw it.
“It was kind of a nail biting situation,” the Clemson pitcher said. “A guy like me, it kind of depends on how people see you on the draft board so it was kind a nail biting time all the way down until the time I was picked.”
The Washington Nationals selected Crownover with the 194 overall pick as became the last of four Tigers chosen on day two of the Major League Draft.