Seth Lancaster gathered at his college house earlier this month with his girlfriend and some teammates as they scoured their cellphones hoping to see Lancaster’s name come across as a selection in the MLB Draft. And when he did — by the Phillies in the eight round — “everyone started jumping up and down like everyone does,” Lancaster said.
But that moment — the one Lancaster said is something he’ll never forget — likely never felt more unimaginable than it did a year earlier, when Lancaster struggled through his junior season at Coastal Carolina with a debilitating eye problem.