FREDERICKSBURG, VA – Infielder Cortland Lawson, 22, didn’t get any advance notice before he was drafted by the Washington Nationals earlier this summer out of the University of Tennessee.
“I was in Knoxville, Tennessee in college and I honestly didn’t hear from anyone,” he told Federal Baseball, standing outside of the clubhouse here in Fredericksburg after Sunday’s game with Down East. “I saw it on the board and my phone started ringing.”
Getting picked in the 14th Round by the Nationals was a dream come true for Lawson, who grew up in Loudoun County, Virginia and played at Paul VI in Fairfax before he transferred to Dominion High in Sterling for his senior season.