WASHINGTON – The 2019 draft might end up being one of the last ones to go so many rounds - 40.
That year, before the pandemic hit and baseball shut down in March 2020, the Nationals took four pitchers among their first six selections: Jackson Rutledge, Matt Cronin, Tyler Dyson, and Todd Peterson.
Peterson, a seventh-round pick out of LSU, will be among the Washington prospects who will be with Surprise in the Arizona Fall League this year.
In two games with the team in the Florida Complex League, he was 1-0 with an ERA of 1.