WASHINGTON – As a young boy, Brendan Collins attended several games at Nationals Park with his family.
He was a fan of Bryce Harper and Max Scherzer – both of whom have since gone elsewhere – and Collins was in the stands for a home playoff game in the Navy Yards neighborhood and his parents went to home playoff games in 2019.
Now the graduate of Sherwood High in Montgomery is in his first year in the minor leagues with low Single-A Fredericksburg, a farm team of the Nationals.
“I had heard from a few other teams and the Nats definitely showed a lot of interest,” Collins, 22, told Federal Baseball on Thursday of getting drafted by Washington in July.