“We’ve got a list of players that we’re going over, and if they’re players that fit what we’re trying to do right now,” GM Mike Rizzo told reporters in San Diego, CA for the 2022-23 MLB Winter Meetings of the Washington Nationals’ plan for the top pick in the 2022 Rule 5 Draft, “… we’ve crafted the roster [so] we take can a player on.”
Going into the Draft, the Nats’ 40-man roster was at 38 following some recent additions and subtractions.
Struggling their way to a 55-107 record this past season “earned” the Nationals the No.