Category Archives: MikeRizzo

Less than 48-hours to the Trade Deadline

Posted on July 28, 2024 by DonH

For Washington Nationals general manager, Mike Rizzo, the trade deadline always creates opportunity. So far, he has already pulled off two trades. Before the All-Star break, Rizzo dealt Hunter Harvey to the Royals for Cayden Wallace and a Comp Round … Continue reading →

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Mike Rizzo and his staff pulled off a 4-D chess move that turned 1.41 years of Harvey into: Wallace and Lomavita

Posted on July 16, 2024 by Andrew Lang

Numerous times, Washington Nationals’ general manager Mike Rizzo has made it clear that he would have to be blown away to trade key players like Hunter Harvey, Kyle Finnegan, and Lane Thomas, who all had team control that extended into … Continue reading →

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Nats coaching and front office staff changes!

Posted on October 10, 2023 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

While the Washington Nationals re-upped, with shiny new contracts, for manager Dave Martinez at the end of August and his boss, Mike Rizzo, in mid-September, most of Martinez’s coaches did not have their contracts extended per Britt Ghiroli of The … Continue reading →

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Official: Mike Rizzo’s contract is extended in a multi-year deal

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

All of the rumors of cutting staff that led some to believe that Mike Rizzo was leaving the Washington Nationals organization were just more of the unsubstantiated rumors that were proven inaccurate as the team announced, before business opened today, … Continue reading →

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Fantasy baseball in real life does not work in building a team or wishing for a new team owner!

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

The New York Mets tried to play fantasy baseball with no rules and a flawed plan with their 2023 roster adding future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander to a rotation with Cooperstown-bound Max Scherzer, and an infield that looked like … Continue reading →

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Mike Rizzo was right, it was a ‘retool’

Posted on August 28, 2023 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

There was that time when general manager Mike Rizzo threw out the ‘retool’ word for the first time after the 2021 trade deadline. He also used the term ‘reboot’ and said that a rebuild was a “five or six year … Continue reading →

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The Nats future is bright beyond the bullpen

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Let us state the obvious right now that the Washington Nationals bullpen is a mess. Okay, we got that out of the way. The future is bright, and that takes no sugarcoating. James Wood, Dylan Crews, Brady House, Robert Hassell … Continue reading →

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Trade Deadline is less than 2 weeks away

Posted on July 19, 2023 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

This year’s trade deadline is on August 1 at 6 pm ET. We are officially on “hug” watch. The Washington Nationals are going to make trade(s) of players on the final years of their contracts. Of course teams want healthy … Continue reading →

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Optimism and Natitude align after the Draft!

Posted on July 10, 2023 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

People can choose their outlook on life — but if you are not more optimistic today as a Washington Nationals fan than you were on August 2, 2022, I don’t know what to tell you. The Nats pulled off the … Continue reading →

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Several teams are taking advantage of the new bases and pickoff rules!

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

In football, they called it the “run and shoot” offense, and several MLB teams seem to be running the baseball version of it. The Tampa Bay Rays have toolsy athletic position players that will take advantage of your weaknesses with … Continue reading →

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