Juan Soto finished up Washington’s 10-game homestand 6 for 32 (.188/.366/.281), taking the 23-year-old Nationals’ outfielder from a .289/.460/.553 line on April 17th to .243/.418/.429 at the end of the day on Thursday. Soto’s manager, Davey Martinez, talked at length before the series finale with Miami’s Marlins in the nation’s capital, about what he’d seen from the Nats’ No. 2 hitter in the first month of Soto’s fifth big league season, and he said he’s planning on keeping him where he is in the two-spot for now.
“We’ve gotten information about him hitting second,” Martinez explained, “.. and he’s come up already two-three times more than he would have, and also too, he’s been up there with runners on base, so we like him in that two-hole, but right now that’s where we want to keep him.