“I’ll definitely miss the knuckleheads, seeing them every day, for sure,” Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez told reporters, before Washington’s final game of the 2024 campaign, late Sunday afternoon in the nation’s capital.
“You spend all year with these guys,” Martinez continued, “... starting from almost the end of January to now, and you build these relationships with them, and you get to know them, and go through the ups and downs of a year, and then when it’s over, it doesn’t really hit you until you wake up tomorrow morning when you wake up and be like, ‘Okay, now what?