Nationals select right-handed pitcher Landon Harmon
By MASN Staff
The Washington Nationals selected right-handed pitcher Landon Harmon out of East Union Attendance Center High School (Miss.) in the third round with the No. 80 overall pick in the 2025 MLB First-Year Player Draft on Sunday. Interim General Manager Mike DeBartolo; Vice President, Amateur Scouting Danny Haas; Senior Director, Amateur Scouting Brad Ciolek; and Assistant Director and National Crosschecker, Amateur Scouting Reed Dunn made the joint announcement.
Harmon, 18, pitched to a 1.09 ERA with 131 strikeouts in 66.1 innings of work this season. He was named MHSAA's Class 2A Mr. Baseball for the second year in a row, an All-State first-team selection and to the 2025 Clarion Ledger's Dandy Dozen, a collection of Mississippi's top high school baseball prospects.
The 6-foot-5, 190-pound righty was the MLBPipeline.com No. 48 prospect in the draft and Baseball America’s No. 65 draft prospect. He was named an All-American, the No. 26 overall player and the No. 2 right-handed pitcher by Perfect Game. He was also named a second-team All-American by Baseball America.
