“Cade [Cavalli] is going to tell us when he’s ready to pitch in the big leagues, I think,” GM Mike Rizzo said this past spring, when asked when fans could expect the top arm in their organization to be pitching in the majors.
“He’s got electric stuff,” Rizzo said of the Washington Nationals’ top pick in the 2020 Draft, taken 22nd overall two years back. “He’s got an elite package, we know that, he just needs to refine it a little bit. And the pace of that is up to him. He’s an extremely hard worker, and he’s got to take it at his pace, but he’s going to let us know by his performance when he’s ready, and as always, what we’ve done here with myself as the GM, when he’s ready he’s going to be here.