Last June, one week after baseball's St. Louis Cardinals drafted 2008 Naval Academy graduate Mitch Harris in the 13th round, Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter ruled Harris must first fulfill his five-year active-duty requirement.
Harris, whose fastball reaches 95 miles per hour, was assigned to a ship based in Virginia. He is now preparing for a long deployment beginning in May, according to his agent, Rick Oliver.
The Cardinals are willing to wait, assistant general manager John Abbamondi said. A former Navy officer, Abbamondi likens the process to holding a ticket to a future lottery drawing.
International Herald Tribune
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