Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo compared the club’s acquisition of 23-year-old catcher Keibert Ruiz in this past July 30th’s trade deadline deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers to the July 29th 2010 trade with Minnesota’s Twins which brought one-time Nationals’ backstop Wilson Ramos to the nation’s capital.
“Not only did we get a very talented, impactful player [in Ruiz],” Rizzo explained after he’d sent Max Scherzer and Trea Turner to LA in return for the catcher, pitchers Josiah Gray and Gerardo Carrillo, and outfielder Donovan Casey, “we got that at a position that we really needed it.