WASHINGTON – When Jim Hickey replaced Paul Menhart earlier this month as the pitching coach for the Nationals, there was a lot of speculation among fans and media that manager Dave Martinez wanted to hire “his people.”
That made a lot of sense after he won a World Series in 2019 and then got a multi-year contract extension after a disappointing 2020 campaign.
The new first-base coach for the Nationals – former Montreal catcher Randy Knorr – has a long history with Martinez.
And Knorr has also been an instructor at various levels in the Washington system since the Nationals came to D.