From the start this Spring, Washington Nationals’ skipper Davey Martinez said he wanted to change at least one thing this season, in his second campaign on the bench in the nation’s capital. Martinez, as a rookie manager, continually shook things up, with 89 different lineup configurations over the course of his first big league season at the helm.
“[What] I want to do, honestly, this year, is if these guys are healthy, have a constant lineup,” Martinez said, “because I really believe that you get to understand how they’re pitching your guys, and a lot of guys talk about sequences and how they pitch guys in certain situations, and if a guy is hitting behind one guy constantly, you kind of know what kind of pitches you’re going to get, so for the most part I want to kind of keep our lineup the same.