There was interest in Kyle Finnegan at this past summer’s trade deadline, but in the end, Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo decided to hold on to the hard-throwing, controllable, 31-year-old reliever.
“There was a lot of interest,” in Finnegan, Carl Edwards, Jr., and others Rizzo said, “… but not to the point where you give away a good late-inning guy like Finnegan if you don’t like the prospect return, and you can control him for multiple years. So that’s always the decision process that you make.”
Finnegan went on to post a 3.51 ERA, a 3.15 FIP, nine walks, 26 strikeouts, and a .