Sean Doolittle went on the Injured List in mid-August, which Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo said at the time would hopefully help the closer, who’d struggled before ending up on the IL with right knee tendinitis and arm fatigue after he’d gotten a lot of work with the Nats’ bullpen a problem all season long.
“He has been taxed. He has been worked,” Rizzo acknowledged in an interview with 106.7 the FAN in D.C.’s Sports Junkies.
“We had to be careful going into the season. We knew that he’s a maintenance guy that we have to maintain, he hasn’t been on the [Injured List], thank god, and he’s a guy that’s been on the [Injured List] for the last couple of years, which has given him a break during the season to finish out the season strong.