“Before we start talking about this,” manager Davey Martinez told reporters, in discussing the club’s decision to option its 23-year-old infielder, Luis García, out to Triple-A early this past August, “I still strongly believe that Luis is a big part of our future, I really do.”
Washington’s decision-makers did send García down for a month-plus in early August and called him back up in early September, with GM and President of Baseball ops Mike Rizzo explaining at the time it was a “preparation assignment” for the left-handed hitting middle infielder.
“We wanted him to go down there and learn a routine,” Rizzo told 106.