Washington Nationals’ President of Baseball Operations and GM Mike Rizzo talked back in mid-September 2023, as the regular season wound down, about the work manager Davey Martinez and his staff (and the Nats’ front office) did in assembling their late-inning relief options over the last few years, turning some fringe arms into a serviceable back end of the bullpen relievers.
“We’ve more or less developed the back end of the bullpen really from scratch,” Rizzo said.