“I really like the way he’s throwing the ball the ball right now, so we’ve got to build him up and the biggest thing is consistency now,” Davey Martinez said of Joe Ross after the right-handed starter’s final appearance in Grapefruit League action last month.
Ross, 27, earned the fifth spot in the rotation this spring, after opting out of playing in 2020, and as Spring Training wound up, the Nationals’ fourth-year manager said he saw signs that the sinker-baller was getting back to where he was pre-Tommy John surgery in 2017.
“He worked really hard, his arm feels great, his body is great, so I feel like he’s back to where he was back then.