“He can play both corners of the infield,” GM Mike Rizzo said of the plans for how the Nationals will use switch-hitting corner infielder Jeimer Candelario, who signed a 1-year/$5M free agent deal with Washington this winter after a down-year in Detroit in 2022. “He can DH, he hits from both sides of the plate. So I think that he’s young, we think he can bounce back, and he gives us flexibility.”
Candelario, 29, was signed to compete for the third base job in D.C. with Carter Kieboom, Ildemaro Vargas, and anyone else in the organization who can play at the hot corner (Happy, Jake Alu fans?