WASHINGTON – Thanks in part to the pandemic, high school and college baseball across that country shut down in March.
One fallout of that was the Major League draft was limited to five rounds this past summer – after lasting 40 rounds in 2019.
But the Nationals signed some non-drafted free agents who likely would have been chosen fairly high in a normal year.
One of them is right-handed pitcher Zachary Brzykcy, who turned down a chance to play at Virginia Tech as a senior in order to sign with Washington this past summer.