[ed. note - “We spent the last week looking at the starting pitchers expected to fill out the Washington Nationals’ rotation in 2023, and now we’ll look at the catchers in advance of both groups of players reporting for the start of Spring Training this week.”]
Going into the 2022 campaign, manager Davey Martinez talked at length about his young catchers, Keibert Ruiz and Riley Adams, and heading into the season with a pair of backstops with limited experience in the majors, after a few years with veteran receivers (like Matt Wieters, Kurt Suzuki, and then Yan Gomes) handling most/all of the catching duties for the club.