Davey Martinez was excited to see what Aaron Sanchez could do when the club called him up to make his 2022 debut against the San Francisco Giants yesterday in Washington, D.C., after the veteran starter signed in mid-March and went out to Triple-A Rochester to start the season.
The unfortunate part, the fifth-year manager said, was that in order to make room on their 40-man roster to add Sanchez, the Nationals had to clear a spot, which they did when the decision was made to DFA reliever Patrick Murphy, after they’d selected the hard-throwing right-hander off waivers from the Toronto Blue Jays last August.