WASHINGTON – Infielder Jackson Cluff, drafted by the Nationals in 2019, was in minor league spring training with the club the following year when he was summoned to a Spring Training game by Washington.
Cluff, 25, and a sixth-round pick out of BYU, reported to Port St. Lucie, Florida as an extra infielder for a game against the New York Mets.
Cluff got to the clubhouse before some of the older players arrived, but Ryan Zimmerman was there.
“I went and put my stuff in the locker but he kindly told me to wait until the big leaguers put their stuff in a locker,” Cluff told Federal Baseball in a phone interview Thursday from Florida.