Since 2012, Tripp Keister has been a minor league manager in the Washington Nationals organization at different levels. For the last three seasons, Keister has managed the high-A affiliate, the Potomac Nationals. At Potomac, Keister’s club won the Carolina League title back in 2014.
This week, I had the privilege of speaking to Keister as part of our DoDcast and I learned a lot of him. The first question I asked him was what he took away from last season. Potomac went 73-65 last year and ended up losing in the first round of the playoffs to the Lynchburg Hillcats (Cleveland Indians):
“We always want to win, but we as an organization don’t just want to have Major League players, we want to have championship Major League players.