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Davey Martinez stressed in discussing the decision to option CJ Abrams to the minors over the weekend, that it was not any sort of performance-related issue.

“It’s an internal issue. I’m not going to give specifics, or talk about specifics,” Martinez told reporters in Chicago. “Because I need to keep these guys and everything on the down-low.

“I got other guys out there that I want to support. I’m going to support CJ, he’s a big part of our Nats family and he will be. But at this point, for me, it was the right thing to do, so with that being said, I had conversations with CJ yesterday, we talked for a while, and .