“I was relieved, I really was,” Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez told reporters in his post game press conference on the night Washington traded both Juan Soto and Josh Bell to the San Diego Padres for a high-end prospect package and one big league bat. “I felt a different — a breath of fresh air, and for me it was about regrouping, and saying, ‘Alright, this is what we need to do moving forward. So, we’re going to go out there, we’re going to compete, we’re going to play hard, we’re going to do some different things … I was proud of the boys going out there.
How the Washington Nationals reacted to the Juan Soto deal at the Trade Deadline
