ANALYSIS/OPINION:
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Few rookie baseball managers have had as much on-the-job training, from so many mentors, as new Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez.
He is most identified with Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon, with whom he spent 10 years as a coach in Chicago and Tampa. But Martinez, over the course of a 16-year career, took notes and learned lessons from at least 10 different managers, with a few interims mixed in — including Hall of Fame skippers.
In the current episode of my “Cigars & Curveballs” podcast, hosted here on The Washington Times website and available on iTunes, Google Play, the reVolver network and other platforms, Martinez, 53, sat down with me at the Nationals spring training complex and reflected on his memories and lessons from those 10 managers.