Mike Rizzo was honest with reporters when the Washington Nationals’ GM was asked on Day 2 of the Winter Meetings on Tuesday if there was any news to report after the 7-year/$245M deal with Stephen Strasburg and one-year deals with Howie Kendrick and Yan Gomes were officially announced.
“The only news we have is meetings have been set, and speaking to a lot of people, and a lot of cliches will follow after that. ‘Irons in the fires,’ ‘lures in the water,’ you know,” Rizzo joked.
There is, of course, still plenty of work to be done as the architect of the Nationals’ roster builds for the 2020 campaign and beyond, and the market is moving quickly, so the next moves might come sooner than expected.