In a September 14th appearance with 106.7 the FAN in D.C.’s The Sports Junkies, GM Mike Rizzo talked about the organizational reboot the club kicked off with a sell-off of expiring contracts (and a year-plus of Trea Turner) at the trade deadline in July of 2021.
“We went into this thing when we started this reboot, it was a very challenging time in our franchise’s history,” Rizzo explained, “... and we in the front office embraced it.
“It was something that nobody wants to do, you’d rather have that veteran-laden team that gives you a chance to win every day, and that type of thing, and then when you go into these kind of tear-down things where you have to try to reboot and try to win in the future, it’s tough, but we took it as an exciting challenge, it really — it really shows what the front office is doing in the game, and at least right now the fans can see what is on the horizon, and what’s in the future.