Washington Nationals’ manager Dave Martinez discussed the strengths of the Nats’ two in-house candidates to back Matt Wieters up behind the plate this season over the weekend, while rumors about the Nationals’ attempts to land another catcher continued to swirl.
FanRag’s Jon Heyman, in his weekly “Inside Baseball Notes” column this weekend, reported that the Nats, “wouldn’t part with either of their top two outfield prospects, Victor Robles or Juan Soto,” in talks about Marlins’ catcher J.T. Realmuto, and Miami, “wanted significant other players paired with,” the players the Nationals were willing to include in a package, like 2016 first-round pick Carter Kieboom, or Michael A.