Junior catcher Matt Thaiss, the 16th overall pick in the 2016 MLB Draft, signed with the Angels earlier this month. His final season at Virginia ended too soon and in heartbreaking fashion, but Thaiss will be remembered as a champion.
I’d spent much of the 2016 Virginia baseball season in the Davenport Field press box, up, up and away from the crowd and heat, as a largely impartial writer enjoying America’s pastime for what it was.