According to a report by Yahoo!Sports.com’s Jeff Passan, which was confirmed with the team by Washington Post writer Chelsea Janes and others, Seth Romero, the Washington Nationals’ 2017 1st Round pick, has been sent home from Spring Training this morning for, Passan wrote on Twitter, violating a team policy.
Romero’s behavioral issues were well-documented when the Nationals selected the left-hander 25th overall in the first round of last June’s MLB Draft.
Romero, now 21, was suspended twice in a 14-month period and later dismissed from the University of Houston during the 2017 season, with Houston Chronicle columnist Joseph Duarte noting that left-hander was finally dismissed, “after an incident,” in mid-May 2017, and what was described as “.