“Hey guys, it is good to see you again’’, said former Nationals coach and manager John McLaren, 73, standing in front of the first-base dugout at a baseball complex in central Poland on a sun-splashed May afternoon.
“We have some of you young guys trying out today and we are trying to do things the right way”. Doing baseball the right way could be the motto for McLaren, who is best known to Nats’ fans as the interim manager for three games before Davey Johnson took over in 2011.
A baseball lifer who was with the Nationals from 2009-11, Texas native and Arizona resident McLaren returned to the central European country for the second straight year to spread his form of the baseball gospel.