Nationals want supervisor alternate after Dave Martinez’s feedback

“It’s never on coaching,” Martinez mentioned. “It’s never on coaching. Coaches work their a**** off every single day. We’re not going to finger-point here and say it’s on the coaches. They work hard.”

After pronouncing he had performed the sport a very long time and not blamed a trainer, he persisted protecting the crew’s training personnel and put the blame at the avid gamers.

“Sometimes you got to put the onus on the players,” Martinez mentioned. “They got to go out there and they got to play the game. And play the game the right way. We can’t hit for them. We can’t catch the balls for them. We can’t pitch for them. We can’t throw strikes for them. They got to do that.”

There is so much to unpack from all of that.

First, no one used to be in fact striking the blame at the coaches. It used to be a easy query from a reporter as as to whether it must be at the avid gamers or the coaches. Martinez then became it right into a passionate protection of the training personnel, whilst throwing the avid gamers below the bus (after pronouncing they weren’t going to indicate arms).

Second, Martinez is not totally mistaken with what he is pronouncing.

It does come all the way down to the avid gamers. The coaches cannot pitch, hit or box for them. But although that’s the case, it is not one thing a supervisor can say out loud. It’s now not one thing a supervisor can say out loud when the crew is 30-40 and when the crew (below this present supervisor) has now not had a profitable season in six years. 

It’s an issue of responsibility. 

And a supervisor who isn’t keen to take any duty and is as an alternative very happy to throw his avid gamers below the bus is a supervisor who is readily going to lose the distinction of his locker room. 

If he hasn’t already.

It’s now not simply that he put the onus at the avid gamers to play higher. That on my own may well be appropriate. It’s the large leagues and everyone is very compensated and open to complaint, particularly when they aren’t appearing. It’s that he put the onus at the avid gamers and completely refused to position any on his training personnel or himself, and as an alternative sponsored them up totally. 

The Nationals’ roster isn’t in particular just right at the moment, and there most definitely isn’t a supervisor who’s going to show that crew of avid gamers right into a winner. That additionally has to fall at the basic supervisor and entrance administrative center for assembling this type of mistaken and unhealthy roster. 

When you’re a crew as unhealthy because the Nationals, no one will get to flee blame for it. That’s now not the view of Martinez, the place everyone else will get the blame except for for him and his training personnel, simply because they paintings arduous.