“I really enjoyed my time in Washington,” 72-year-old, Houston Astros’ manager Dusty Baker told Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle of the time he spent managing the Nationals back in 2016-17. “The two years I was there was probably some of the most enjoyable times I’ve ever had in baseball, on the field and off the field.”
It wasn’t just the teams he managed, both of which went to the postseason and lost in the NLDS, but the nation’s capital as a whole appealed to Baker.
“I always liked the diversity, the people, the education level that was there.