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Davey Martinez, like GM Mike Rizzo, is under contract through the end of the 2023 season, but both are excited about the progress in restarting/restructuring/resetting their organizations embarking on the 2021 trade deadline. ing. Will they come here to see it?
Martinez hopes so.
He told reporters after the trade deadline passed last week that the Nationals traded veteran Jaymar Candelario to Chicago and acquired two prospects currently ranked among the top 20 by MLB’s pipeline scouts. “We had a plan when we started this,” he said. Beginning in August 2021, Knotts is seeking prospects to recruit players into the minor league system on expiring contracts.
“Obviously part of the plan is to get players here who thought we could get some young players if possible,” Martinez explained. “It’s part of it. But our plan is to be younger and give young players the chance to come and play here and see them grow as we go further. And so far. is going very well.”
6th year manager who led the club to victory. world series The player, who won his second season on the bench in 2019, said he’s thrilled with the talent he’s amassed in trades and drafts over the past few years.
“We have a lot of good young players and some of the guys that are coming up that I’m really, really looking forward to,” he added. “Some of the core players that we got in Double A are doing well and we are excited about them. So it looks like the plan is moving pretty quickly. I think, we play here, we compete every day, the guys go out and play hard, and I love that about them, so we keep going forward, We have to keep improving.”
“I think we’ve made a big impact on the franchise,” Lizzo told Fan 106.7 of DC’s Sports Junkies ahead of this year’s deadline for trade prey and draft classes that have been added to the mix over the past three years. .
“I think we’ve overdone the rebuilding process, and I think we’re further along than we would have been if those two trade deadlines hadn’t passed,” he said. talked about the sale of Tory Turner control) in 2021 and 22 (when he traded Juan Soto for Josh Bell) and to a lesser extent this season.
With another draft and another deal looming, the club must now decide whether Lizzo and Martinez are the right ones to bring the Knots back into the postseason in the near future after a three-year losing streak and bottom-place finish. . eastern North Carolina.
“We don’t like to lose,” Martinez repeated this week. “Not really. So, like I said, we started this and we had a plan, we weren’t going to wait five or six years in the plan. It was about trying to get it done, and now we’re really happy with where we are.”
Will the Nationals owners group be happy enough with the state of the organization to extend Lizzo and Martinez (or either, if not both, what commenters correctly pointed out? should have been an option in our poll)? We’ve heard everyone’s opinions, so we’re finally announcing the results. Give me an envelope… what? Don’t you have an envelope? Is it just an image? I think that’s cool. See… maybe. anything. result:
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