“These guys, they had such a good year in the minor leagues,” manager Davey Martinez said of pitchers like the Washington Nationals’ 2019 1st Round pick Jackson Rutledge getting (or really earning) an opportunity to pitch in the majors late this season after a solid run in the minors before the 24-year-old got called up to make his MLB debut and hung around for four starts down the stretch, two of them against the six-time, defending NL East champs from Atlanta.
“They get a chance up here this last month to go and pitch up here, and we get to evaluate them every time they get the ball and start,” Martinez explained.