Davey Martinez told reporters at the 2022 Winter Meetings outfielder Lane Thomas was one of several players on the roster in D.C. who’d sent the manager video of their offseason work as they got back at it in preparation for the 2023 campaign.
Washington’s 27-year-old outfielder, the Nationals’ skipper said, was hard at work on some of the things they asked him to focus on this winter.
“I’ve seen Lane Thomas already hitting on the field and working on trying to stay on the ball, hitting the ball into right-center field,” Martinez explained.
Thomas, he said, who played 142 games in the outfield in 2022 (73 in left, 56 out in center, and 43 in right), is preparing to play all over the outfield again in 2023.