Having acquired both Ryan Madson and Sean Doolittle from the Oakland A’s earlier this month, Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo told 106.7 the FAN in D.C.’s Sports Junkies he thought the hard work of bolstering Washington’s bullpen was mostly done.
“I think that we’ve done most of our heavy lifting for the trade deadline,” Rizzo said, “but that’s not to say that if there’s a value that we feel can help us that we wouldn’t be aggressive like we always are and attack that and try to improve ourselves.”
According to reports last night, the Nationals were one of the teams still in the mix for Justin Wilson before the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs agreed on a deal for the 29-year-old left-handed reliever:
Having missed out on Wilson, the Nationals reportedly turned their attention to Zach Britton, the Baltimore Orioles’ left-handed closer.