“[Will] Harris has a little bit of a groin thing going on that we’re trying to take care of,” Washington Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez told reporters after Thursday’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays, in explaining why he’d stayed away from using Harris.
The Nationals’ four-day break with their scheduled three-game set with the Miami Marlins this weekend postponed should give Harris some time to heal up.
“We’re hoping that these days we can nip it in the bud and get him ready for Tuesday,” the Nats’ skipper added.
Harris, 35, signed a 3-year/$24M free agent deal with the Nationals this winter, coming off a 2019 campaign with the Houston Astros in which he posted a 1.