Signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent in 2006, and then traded to the New York Yankees in 2015, before he was dealt to the Miami Marlins in 2017, Starlin Castro waited for the opportunity to choose where he played again, and he finally got it this winter, and he signed on with the Washington Nationals.
The thinking behind the decision to take a 2-year/$12M deal to play for the defending World Series champions?
“I’ve been really a fan of Washington since I saw [Alfonso] Soriano play over there,” Castro told reporters in a conference call after his contract with the Nats was official, referring to the one year Soriano played in D.