WASHINGTON – Bobby Myrick still remembers where he was in mid-March around the time the Washington Nationals – and other teams – pulled their scouts off the road.
The veteran scout for the Nationals was watching an intrasquad game at a high school in Virginia just before college and prep teams around the country began to shut down due to the pandemic.
So the next few months were like nothing Myrick has experienced in his career as a scout, which began with the Angels in the late 1980s.
Fortunately, he did a lot of groundwork last fall and winter to prepare for the 2020 draft – which was limited to five rounds this past summer after lasting 40 rounds in 2019.