“I kind of let Victor be Victor for a minute or two, then the coach in me kind of takes over,” Washington Nationals’ hitting coach Kevin Long said when asked about the month at the end of the 2018 campaign he had to work with top prospect Victor Robles.
“What I saw was a couple adjustments that he needed to make,” Long continued, “... and he made them on the fly, and he was able to take it into the game, and I was like, ‘Woah, that’s special.’ So that excites me.”
Robles, who suffered a hyperextension of his left elbow four games in at Triple-A Syracuse last summer, returned to the field in early July and finished out the minor league season in upstate New York before joining the Nationals for the last few weeks of the season.