The Washington Nationals did not tender a contract to veteran reliever Craig Stammen, so the right-hander is now a free agent. With Anthony Rendon expected to return to third base is Yunel Escobar moving to second/short, or is he a trade candidate this winter?
In discussing what went wrong for the Washington Nationals in their disappointing 2015 campaign, GM Mike Rizzo, in an MLB Network Radio interview in September, put the blame on himself for some of the Nats' struggles.
"Specifically the injuries in the bullpen were problematic because we didn't backfill those spots when a [Craig] Stammen and then later on when a [David] Carpenter went down and that type of thing.