In his media availability at 2023’s Winter Meetings early last month, Washington Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez was asked if he could recall a favorite story of a time he played a hunch, went against the book, and had it pay off?
“Did you watch the World Series in 2019?” Martinez said with a laugh, pointing to the final stretch of the improbable run from 19-31 to the first World Series championship for a D.