New York Yankees became the latest team<\/a> to do their due diligence on the starting pitcher.<\/p>\n\u201cWell first of all, I didn\u2019t see the CJ Abrams stuff until today and so I didn\u2019t think that was a thing,\u201d Toboni said in one of several media appearances on Monday. \u201cI haven\u2019t talked to CJ about this. CJ and I have been talking – I chatted with him live the other day. MacKenzie [Gore] was different because I saw this stuff coming up with MacKenzie and I\u2019m like man, I\u2019m going to call him just because if I put myself in MacKenzie\u2019s shoes, I\u2019m probably wanting to hear if this is real or not or if this is BS. And more than that, man, I said it the other day, one of the most gratifying parts for me is building relationships with staff and players. To me, it\u2019s like I had already talked to MacKenzie, I was just calling again to check in to say by the way, like you\u2019re going to see this and this is how I think through it. If you have any questions, hit me up whenever you want. That\u2019s how I\u2019d approach it with anyone. At the same time, I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s the best thing to set a standard that every single time someone\u2019s name pops up in the media, I\u2019m giving them a call and updating them. Trying to balance those two things but so much of this in my opinion comes down to relationships. If you have great ones, they trust what you\u2019re telling them and want to keep them informed but probably don\u2019t want to overcommunicate too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Nationals have avoided arbitration with a pair of key players in shortstop CJ Abrams and pitcher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[30240,17431,5,3573,497,496,12062,771,4,415,62,22488,811,3624,414,71,4222],"class_list":["post-512270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-andrew-golden","tag-arbitration","tag-baseball","tag-cade-cavalli","tag-cj-abrams","tag-jake-irvin","tag-josiah-gray","tag-mackenzie-gore","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-robert-murray","tag-starting-pitcher","tag-the-nationals","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115862439951259562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}