Nationals extend general manager Mike Rizzo through 2018

WASHINGTON -- The Washington Nationals picked up the contract option for Mike Rizzo that keeps the president of baseball operations and general manager with the organization through the 2018 season.

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The Nationals exercised the option before the June 15 deadline.

Rizzo joined the organization in 2007 and was named GM in 2010, the same year he selected Bryce Harper No. 1 overall in the first-year player draft. Washington won the NL East in 2012 and 2014.

"We are pleased with the job Mike has done over the past nine years," Nationals owner Theodore Lerner said in a statement released Saturday. "He and the baseball operations team have worked tirelessly…