“The whole staff has to do a better job of throwing strike one,” Washington’s GM, Mike Rizzo, told fans in a recent season ticket holder event in D.C.
“To me it’s the most important pitch in the game. We’re going to put up a sign in Spring Training.
“I told [Manager] Davey [Martinez], we’re going to put up a sign in Spring Training that says, ‘I don’t care how fast you throw ball four.’”
Those signs were affixed to the fences in West Palm Beach, FL when pitchers and catchers (and reporters) arrived at the Nationals’ Spring Training facility on Wednesday morning for the first official day of the 2024 campaign.