General manager and president of baseball operations Mike Rizzo will be sticking around.
The Washington Nationals picked up the two-year option on Rizzo, keeping him under contract through 2018, the team announced Saturday night.
“We are pleased with the job Mike has done over the past nine years,” Nationals owner Ted Lerner said in a statement. “He and the baseball operations team have worked tirelessly to help build this organization into one of Major League Baseball’s elite clubs. We are fortunate to have him.”
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Rizzo was promoted to Nationals general manager in 2009 after the Arizona Diamondbacks chose to hire Josh Byrnes to be general manager.