Davey Martinez played 16 seasons in the majors, retiring after 2001 before he started his second career, as a Spring Training instructor with the Tampa Bay Rays, and, eventually, became a coach with the club in 2008.
He spent 10 years as a bench coach with Madden in Tampa and Chicago, taking a number of interviews for managerial jobs before he finally got one in Washington in 2018.
So he has plenty of experience in Spring Training, but he still hasn’t tired of it all.
In fact, he said early this spring, seeing all the players come together every year to reestablish relationships or build new ones is part of what he loves about the game.