The Washington Nationals completed the 2025 season with a shedding document for the sixth straight yr. Washington hasn’t reached the playoffs since successful the World Collection in 2019. After a dismal 37-53 begin this season, the Nationals fired supervisor Dave Martinez and longtime common supervisor Mike Rizzo.
The hunt is on for a brand new supervisor in Washington. The staff interviewed Cleveland Guardians bench coach Craig Albernaz and interim supervisor Miguel Cairo for the place this week, per The Washington Publish’s Andrew Golden. The group might think about extra candidates as effectively.
Cairo was promoted to interim supervisor after Martinez was dismissed in July. He initially joined the Nationals because the staff’s bench coach for the 2024 season. Whereas positioned in a troublesome place after a rocky begin to the yr, Cairo was not capable of enhance the staff. Washington completed the season 29-43 with Cairo on the helm.
Nationals search new supervisor throughout entrance workplace rebuild
The Nationals employed Paul Toboni to exchange Rizzo as president of baseball operations. Toboni comes from the Purple Sox group, the place he served as assistant GM.
Washington’s shakeup didn’t cease at supervisor and GM. Since taking up because the staff’s president, Toboni has overhauled the entrance workplace. The Nationals moved on from the group’s two longest-tenured executives as a half dozen staff had been let go.
Toboni initiated an entire teardown of the operations facet of the franchise in his first month in cost. The strikes make it troublesome to consider the staff will rent Cairo because the sweeping modifications really feel partly symbolic for a staff that wants a recent begin. Though, Cairo had solely been with Washington for 2 seasons, so maybe he isn’t considered as a part of the outdated guard.
Martinez was employed to handle the Nationals in 2018. The next yr he gained the one World Collection championship in staff historical past. Since then, he hasn’t gained a lot in any respect, ending with a 500-622 document as Washington’s skipper.
Martinez had been, by far, the staff’s longest tenured supervisor because the Lerner household bought the franchise in 2006. In truth, he was the one supervisor who lasted greater than three seasons with the Nationals. Martinez was fired in the course of his eighth season with Washington.
Rizzo joined the franchise in 2007, simply two years after it left Montreal and have become the Washington Nationals. He began as assistant common supervisor and labored his approach as much as GM in 2009. Rizzo turned GM and president of baseball operations in 2013.