Trea Turner talked earlier this week about the impact Gerardo Parra has had since returning to the Nationals’ major league roster earlier this month, for the first time since 2019.
Each and every year we’ve had — I say it all the time that and the front office are great at signing guys and signing good people, so we have a lot of fun, we try to enjoy it, but he’s a special character and he’s had some good at bats already for us.
“He’s very much chirpy,” Martinez explained.
“He talks a lot during the games, gets the guys riled up, so it’s been a lot of fun since he’s been here, and this is something that I talked about with him being here on a regular basis, he becomes who he is.
For the Nationals’ skipper, however, who has been in contact with Parra over the last two years, even when he wasn’t part of the organization for a while, it didn’t really feel like the outfielder ever left.
The other day he took a bunch of ground balls at first base, he’s constantly in the cage, trying to get better, he’s in there preparing during games for that one pinch hit that he gets.
Josh Bell, in his first season in D.C.
“I heard stories in spring, everyone is like, ‘This guy is something else, the energy that he brings is second to none,’” Bell said, “…