“It is by no means on teaching,” Martinez mentioned. “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 laborious.”
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 employees and put the blame on the gamers.
“Typically you bought to place the onus on the gamers,” Martinez mentioned. “They bought to go on the market and so they bought to play the sport. And play the sport the precise method. We won’t hit for them. We won’t catch the balls for them. We won’t pitch for them. We won’t throw strikes for them. They bought to do this.”
There’s a lot to unpack from all of that.
First, no person was truly 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 employees, whereas throwing the gamers underneath the bus (after saying they weren’t going to level fingers).
Second, Martinez is not totally unsuitable with what he is saying.
It does come all the way 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 is not one thing a supervisor can say out loud when the staff is 30-40 and when the staff (underneath this present supervisor) has not had a profitable season in six years.
It is a matter of accountability.
And a supervisor who shouldn’t be keen to take any duty and is as a substitute more than pleased to throw his gamers underneath the bus is a supervisor who’s shortly going to lose the respect of his locker room.
If he hasn’t already.
It is not simply that he put the onus on the gamers to play higher. That alone might be acceptable. It is the large leagues and all people is very compensated and open to criticism, particularly when they aren’t performing. It is that he put the onus on the gamers and completely refused to place any on his teaching employees or himself, and as a substitute backed them up fully.
The Nationals’ roster shouldn’t be notably good proper now, and there in all probability shouldn’t be a supervisor who’s going to show that group of gamers right into a winner. That additionally has to fall on the overall supervisor and entrance workplace for assembling such a flawed and unhealthy roster.
If you find yourself a staff as unhealthy 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 apart from him and his teaching employees, simply because they work laborious.
