The Nationals are sure to have ups and downs with a young team in a rebuild, but manager Dave Martinez is one consistent piece to the puzzle.
. They’re growing — really, tangibly growing — but are still a ways from turning the proverbial corner.“I don’t necessarily think everybody is looking at me,” he said. “But the way I feel about them —”
Martinez laughed at the memory, saying Ernie was his own mix of kind and gruff, hard on his son but in a loving way. Ernie always held at least two jobs to provide for Martinez, his three siblings and their mom. He drove a delivery truck, worked for the school district and did some construction with Martinez’s uncle, often sleeping a few hours after one shift before heading to the next. And in turn, he expected a lot of Martinez on and off the field.
“I asked Davey to come on for one reason, honestly: The Devil Rays had no culture and did not play very good baseball, and I had watched him play for years and loved every second of it,” Maddon said in a recent phone interview. “I needed him with me to show the players how it’s done. And when he became my bench coach, he handled problems that I didn’t hear about until weeks, months later. He is an expert in people.”Martinez called his dad “the MVP of my life.” He called Maddon his “big brother.
He leaned forward in his chair and told a story from earlier in the month. CJ Abrams, his 22-year-old shortstop, and Dominic Smith, his 27-year-old first baseman, were fighting themselves at the plate. So before the team left for a trip to Minneapolis and New York, Martinez called them into his office for a chat.
“Against the Twins, I think CJ was 3 for 10 with a walk … hit a bomb, had three RBI,” Martinez recalled. “So I said, ‘Hey, how do you think you did in 10 at-bats?’ He was like, ‘Good, Skip.’ I said, ‘Nah man. Damn f — good.’”Martinez comes to this diner because it’s familiar, because unlike everything else around him, it hasn’t changed a bit. The staff knows him well, meaning they know not to talk too much about baseball.
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