When he signed on for $1.3M and a second season in Washington, D.C. in the week before Nationals’ pitchers and catchers reported to West Palm Beach, FL for the start of Spring Training, Jeremy Hellickson immediately became the frontrunner for the fifth spot in the Nats’ 2019 rotation.
Hellickson said he told the Nationals he thought he showed enough in 2018 to get the spot again.
“I haven’t been told much,” Hellickson said when asked if he’d discussed what role he would fill with the team.
“The big thing for me was I didn’t really want to come into camp and compete for a job again,” he explained.