GEICO Alumni Showcase: Kyri Washington
Courtesy LongwoodLancers.com
During his days as a Lancer, few could swing a bat as powerfully as Kyri Washington. It made him the Big South's home run leader in 2015, earned him an all-conference award and an invitation to the prestigious Cape Cod League, and it drew dozens of professional scouts to Farmville where he drove many a fastball beyond the confines of Buddy Bolding Stadium.
Now five years after the Boston Red Sox selected him in the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft, Washington will be the one unearthing the next generation of professional baseball talent as a member of the Red Sox scouting team.
Following a five-year professional career in the Red Sox minor league system that ended with his retirement in August of 2019, the five-time World Series Champion organization announced in February that they had hired Washington as a professional scout.
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