Davey Johnson managed 407 games in the nation’s capital between 2011-13. Manny Acta, (remember him?) managed 410 between 2007-2009. Davey Martinez passed Johnson on the list of the longest-tenured managers for the Washington Nationals since 2005 earlier this week, and in Thursday’s series finale with the Atlanta Braves, the fourth-year skipper passed Acta.
Martinez is now longest-tendured skipper in the seventeen seasons since MLB baseball returned to Washington in ‘05.
The fact that they’ve had eight managers since ‘05 is another story, but Martinez, who got a multi-year deal in 2020, after leading the club to the first World Series by a D.