“Bullpens are built each and every year,” Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo told 106.7 the FAN in D.C.’s Grant Paulsen and Danny Rouhier in 2015, before embarking on another rebuild of the relief corps that winter.
After a rough season for the relievers the Nationals threw out there in 2019, Rizzo and Co. in the front office in the nation’s capital are tasked with once again assembling a group of relievers that is capable of getting through the late innings with leads intact or alternately trying to keep the games close enough that the offense can battle their way back into it.