Of the ten players who made their MLB debuts for Washington in 2023, tying the Nationals’ franchise record from the 2015 campaign, six of them were pitchers.
Manager Davey Martinez talked late last season about working with all of those young arms in the majors, after Jackson Rutledge (a 2019 1st Round pick), came up to start in the big leagues down the stretch.
“We got some very young, talented players,” Martinez said. “Some that we traded for, some that have been in the organization that we developed, [Rutledge] being one — he’s one of our No.