Mike Rizzo said on Sunday that the final look back on the 60-game, 2020 COVID campaign will take place when they’ve played out the schedule, and do their “autopsy” on the season. But after a loss to Atlanta’s Braves on Sunday, the defending World Series champs had just a 3% chance of making it back to the postseason, by FiveThirtyEight’s projections, and the Nats were winding down what has been an injury-filled, ultimately disappointing defense of the first MLB championship by a D.C.-based club since 1924.
How did the GM and President of Baseball Operations, who signed a long-term (reportedly three-year) extension earlier this month, assess what’s gone wrong for third-year manager Davey Martinez’s ballclub this season?