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Davey Martinez was happy to hear a couple of his players had been dismissing the idea of it being a rebuilding season in D.C. in 2022. That’s not how they’re thinking about.

“They sound like me,” Martinez told reporters before the 2022 season opener last night.

“It’s true. You don’t rebuild in the major leagues, you know, you compete every day at the highest level. There’s no rebuilding. And if you could look to see what [GM] Mike [Rizzo] and his group has done and what I’ve said that we needed to try to do, we’ve got a good core of veteran players with some young players that have the ability to do a lot of different things.