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Washington Nationals’ 2021 catching corps: Yan Gomes and Alex Avila take over in D.C.

Davey Martinez told Yan Gomes at the end of the 60-game 2020 campaign that he should prepare to play significantly more than he had in his first two seasons in D.C., when he and Kurt Suzuki shared the catching duties for the Nationals, starting in 220 of 222 games that the team played.

“I told him, I said, ‘You need to prepare to catch 100-110 games.