Nationals pick 'diligent' Cairo as interim manager

The Washington Nationals person named seat manager Miguel Cairo arsenic their interim manager, the squad announced Monday.

Cairo, who played for 9 teams implicit 17 MLB seasons from 1996 to 2012, replaces Dave Martinez, who was fired on with wide manager Mike Rizzo connected Sunday.

Cairo joined the Nationals successful 2024 aft spending the erstwhile play arsenic the insignificant league infield coordinator for the New York Mets. He besides served arsenic seat manager for the Chicago White Sox during the 2021 and 2022 seasons and was named acting manager for the last 34 games of the 2022 season, going 18-16.

"Miguel is well-respected successful our enactment and astir baseball," Nationals interim wide manager Mike DeBartolo said successful a statement. "A diligent idiosyncratic and pupil of the game, helium has a proven way grounds of showing beardown enactment successful a assortment of situations, and I judge that his dependable and vigor volition service arsenic a catalyst to our squad and our instrumentality basal successful the 2nd fractional of the season."

DeBartolo, the club's elder vice president and adjunct wide manager, was named interim GM connected Sunday nighttime and volition oversee each aspects of shot operations, including the MLB draft.