Washington’s Nationals announced on Monday that manager Davey Martinez was selected to be on the 2022 NL All-Star staff by Atlanta Braves’ skipper Brian Snitker, whose club won the World Series last season. Martinez, of course, didn’t get to manage an All-Star Game in 2020, after the win in the Fall Classic in 2019, with the Midsummer Classic canceled by the delayed start to the season caused by the COVID pandemic.
Talking about getting named to the staff for this year’s All-Star Game, Martinez said he was not so much disappointed for himself back in 2020, more than anything he said he was disappointed for the fans in the nation’s capital, and for his coaches, who did not get to experience all the celebrations which would normally follow the season after a World Series title, especially the first by a club from D.