Heck, they might be one of the worst teams in baseball. A 162-game season has a way of letting you know. But good, bad or somewhere in between, it won’t change who Wash is.

He might hit sharp one-hop grounders from 20 feet away. Sometimes he works on facets of turning the double play. He might have infielders put on his flat glove to train the hands to cradle the ball.

Alex Rodriguez knows a thing or two about playing the infield. Being brought up as a shortstop, he transitioned to playing third base during the 2004 season when he was traded to the New York Yankees.

In the past, Washington has done things like teach Marcus Semien how to become an above-average defensive shortstop with the A's. Semien had 0.1 defensive WAR in 2015 at the position and by 2018 ...