Davey Martinez came into Spring Training and his first major league managerial gig with a plan to try to keep Washington Nationals’ reliever Shawn Kelley healthy after the veteran’s struggles in 2017.
Kelley, who signed a 3-year/$15M deal with the Nationals in 2015, was diagnosed with bone chips in his elbow at the end of a 2017 season which saw the 33-year-old right-hander put up a 7.