Reporters in the nation’s capital noticed that during yesterday’s workouts in Nationals Park, there were only two catchers on the playing field, and neither of them was Yan Gomes or Alex Avila. So, yeah, given the club’s situation, with eleven players total (four of whom tested positive for COVID-19, and seven of whom ended up in quarantine after contact tracing), unavailable for now, that minor league deal with free agent Jonathan Lucroy that was announced over the weekend starts to make a lot more sense.
Raudy Read (26) and Tres Barrera (23), who have played a combined 16 games in the majors between them (with just three starts, all by Read), were both in D.