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Crews said he’d been managing soreness for roughly a week.
“It’s never a positive, you always want to go out there and play every day,” he said. “But I guess it could’ve been worse. So we’ll just get in the training room and get it right so I can get on the field as soon as I can.”
In a corresponding move, the Nationals recalled Robert Hassell III from Triple-A Rochester.
The eighth overall pick by San Diego in the 2020 draft, Hassell will become the fourth minor leaguer to reach the majors with Washington that was acquired in the 2022 trade that sent Juan Soto to the Padres, joining James Wood, CJ Abrams and MacKenzie Gore.
“It was a big trade, and everybody has high expectations for us,” Hassell said.
