You’re not going to (or you probably shouldn’t) judge a 41-year-old, 18-year veteran on what he does in Spring Training (5 for 35, .143 AVG, double, 2 HRs), or in the first few games of a season, but Nelson Cruz did go 1 for 12 in the first three regular season games with his new team, with a 100% ground ball% (according to Fangraphs), and that’s a thing that people are going to notice. So, of course, Davey Martinez was asked if the DH in D.C.’s timing is off early in his first season in the nation’s capital after signing a 1-year/$15M free agent deal with the club this spring.
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