Victor Robles is aware he is running out of chances to establish himself as the center fielder in D.C., but the Washington Nationals want the 25-year-old to claim it before they have to go another direction, and they have told him as much. Maybe not in those words.
“I think he’s at a good place right now,” Nationals’ skipper Davey Martinez told reporters earlier this month, as things got going in Spring Training 2023.
“I had a good talk with him, a good conversation that, ‘We’re going to be a lot better if you could play center field for us every day,’ and … do the simple things correctly.