In a mid-May report on the Washington Nationals’ bullpen struggles, USA Today’s Bob Nightengale cited information from “executives with direct knowledge of the deal,” who told him the Nationals and Chicago White Sox nearly completed a trade for the Sox’ veteran reliever David Robertson before Spring Training.
In that proposed deal, Nightengale wrote, the Nationals, “... were to send 19-year-old left-hander Jesus Luzardo and minor league infielder Drew Ward to the White Sox for Robertson, with the White Sox eating about half of the $25 million remaining in his contract.