Few can fault Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo for trying to upgrade the catching position this past off-season. Trading for Yan Gomes and signing Kurt Suzuki in November made sense, as did the team’s plan to platoon the two catchers.
Hopes were high, with this site’s former expert even arguing that acquiring Gomes could be the best of Rizzo’s many off-season moves. Suzuki, for his part, was already popular in Nationals circles after his 2012-13 stint in Washington and 2017-18 career renaissance in Atlanta.