Parting ways with a number of veterans and soon-to-be-free agents opened up spots for a few young, unproven players in the Washington Nationals’ organization to show what they could do given an opportunity down the stretch.
“We got rid of some guys,” manager Davey Martinez told reporters last week.
“But we also had some really young guys that we knew could play and we wanted to see play, and they’re all stepping up and they’re all doing their job.”
With varying degrees of success, a number of the new bullpen arms have been called upon over the last few weeks, and a few of the veterans have done their best to prove there’s still something left or they are back to 100%.