Mike Rizzo talked at the end of the 2020 regular season about how Washington’s Nationals would approach the offseason as they tried to bounce back from what he’d acknowledged was a disappointing follow-up to their 2020 World Series championship.
“We’re a winning organization, we’ve got a bunch of winners over here, and our goal is to win again,” Rizzo said in late September, after a long-term extension with manager Davey Martinez was announced. “Win again next year in 2021, that’s our primary focus and with the leadership in place now, we can move on to roster construction and preparation for the 2021 season, and hopefully it will be closer to a normal regular, major league season, but if not we need to adapt and adjust and make sure that this type of finish doesn’t happen again.