A benefit of joining the staff of a manager he knows well, personally, new Washington Nationals’ hitting coach Darnell Coles said in his introductory press conference, is the confidence that Davey Martinez will allow him to, “put my stamp, so to speak, on the offense, and make the adjustments that are necessary.”
While the Nats’ skipper allows for a certain amount of autonomy, Coles said, he knows that Martinez will also be hands on with the hitters.
“[He] is going to be involved,” Coles added. “He wants to be involved, we’ll sit down a lot, talk hitting, what he sees as a different set of eyes, and all that, but at the end of the day, he’s allowing me to go out and do my job so that these guys know that any and everything that these players are going to want and need will be taken care of and I mean taken care of pronto.