Having acquired relievers Sean Doolittle and Ryan Madson from the Oakland Athletics, Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo told 106.7 the FAN in D.C.’s The Sports Junkies last Wednesday that while he would continue to consider potential improvements to the bullpen, most of the “heavy lifting” was done after the latest in a long line of deals with the A’s.
“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.