Washington Post writer Jesse Dougherty offered an anecdote on Twitter yesterday about how Juan Soto expressed interest in potentially playing with 41-year-old, 17-year veteran Nelson Cruz, leading Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo to tell his 23-year-old outfielder to give Cruz a call and see if it helped recruit the free agent designated hitter to D.C.
“[I told him] that we’re a really good group, that we stick together, that we’re going through everything together,” Soto said, as quoted by the WaPost’s Dougherty after Cruz signed on.
“It doesn’t matter if we’re going good or bad — we try to not be selfish.