“It is by no means on teaching,” Martinez stated. “It is by no means on teaching. Coaches work their a**** off each single day. We’re not going to finger-point right here and say it is on the coaches. They work onerous.”
After saying he had performed the sport a very long time and by no means blamed a coach, he continued defending the staff’s teaching workers and put the blame on the gamers.
“Generally you bought to place the onus on the gamers,” Martinez stated. “They bought to go on the market they usually bought to play the sport. And play the sport the appropriate means. We will not hit for them. We will not catch the balls for them. We will not pitch for them. We will not throw strikes for them. They bought to do this.”
There’s a lot to unpack from all of that.
First, no person was really placing the blame on the coaches. It was a easy query from a reporter as as to if it must be on the gamers or the coaches. Martinez then turned it right into a passionate protection of the teaching workers, whereas throwing the gamers below the bus (after saying they weren’t going to level fingers).
Second, Martinez is not totally improper with what he is saying.
It does come right down to the gamers. The coaches cannot pitch, hit or area for them. However even when that’s the case, it is not one thing a supervisor can say out loud. It isn’t one thing a supervisor can say out loud when the staff is 30-40 and when the staff (below this present supervisor) has not had a profitable season in six years.
It is a matter of accountability.
And a supervisor who will not be keen to take any accountability and is as an alternative more than pleased to throw his gamers below the bus is a supervisor who’s rapidly going to lose the respect of his locker room.
If he hasn’t already.
It isn’t simply that he put the onus on the gamers to play higher. That alone might be acceptable. It is the massive leagues and all people is extremely compensated and open to criticism, particularly when they don’t seem to be performing. It is that he put the onus on the gamers and completely refused to place any on his teaching workers or himself, and as an alternative backed them up utterly.
The Nationals’ roster will not be significantly good proper now, and there in all probability will not be a supervisor who’s going to show that group of gamers right into a winner. That additionally has to fall on the final supervisor and entrance workplace for assembling such a flawed and dangerous roster.
If you end up a staff as dangerous because the Nationals, no person will get to flee blame for it. That is not the view of Martinez, the place all people else will get the blame aside from him and his teaching workers, simply because they work onerous.
