Going into his rehab assignment, Washington Nationals’ skipper Davey Martinez said that he wanted Ryan Zimmerman, who’s been out of the lineup since July 21st with complications from plantar fasciitis, to get a workload similar to what he’d get in Spring Training, somewhere around 25 at bats.
“We’ve got to build him up,” Martinez explained, as quoted by MASN’s Mark Zuckerman this week, after Zimmerman got a couple games in. “I talked to him yesterday. It’s going well and he feels good. But we’ve got to try to get him as many at-bats as we can and then we’ll move forward.