“I look at this season as a disappointment,” Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo said in a season-in-review-type interview with reporters in Citi Field, where the club started its final series of the 2022 campaign yesterday.
Going into the three-game set with the New York Mets, the Nationals were 55-104 (55-106 after back-to-back losses in the doubleheader), and all of the losses have not been easy to deal with, but Rizzo was realistic about where the team is as the season winds down.
“I’ve always said that you are what your record says you are, and our record says we’re the worst team in the league right now,” Rizzo acknowledged, “and it’s hard to argue with that.