Jacob Lindgren’s Major League Baseball career started with a set of directions and a locked door.
The Yankees’ top pick from the last draft who got called up just 353 days after his selection, landed in New York on Saturday night. Before he arrived at Yankee Stadium on Sunday around 1:15 p.m., he had to make a call to get directions to the players’ entrance. And when he got to the clubhouse he found the door locked.
“I didn’t know how to get in. I was waiting outside the clubhouse and just knocking,” said Lindgren, who was taken in the second round out of Mississippi State with the 55th overall pick.