“We saw a lot of growth last year,” Davey Martinez told reporters when he spoke at the Winter Meetings about what he expected in terms of the Washington Nationals’ identity as a team in 2024, “… especially in our younger players. I want them to be hungry and be ready.”
Two and a half years into the reboot the organization embarked upon at the trade deadline in 2021, Martinez said, they are making progress and almost, in his opinion, back to fielding the sort of competitive teams the club did between 2012-19.