“We looked at all kinds of stuff,” Davey Martinez said, “... all kinds of different numbers, and we tried some things with him, and he was all open to it, and ... you saw some signs that maybe this was going to work, and then unfortunately, it didn’t, so it’s tough. It’s tough for me — I really believed that he was going to get through it, and it just didn’t happen.”
Martinez, the Washington Nationals’ fifth-year manager, was talking about the team’s move to designate veteran reliever Austin Voth for assignment late last month, and as he said, he was selfishly hoping the 29-year-old would clear waivers and decided to stick with the club that drafted him in the 5th Round in 2013 and brought him to the majors in 2018.