With Washington’s bullpen one of the worst in the National League over the first two months of the 2019 campaign, GM Mike Rizzo and Co. in the Nationals’ front office were determined to try anything they could to turn things around.
“We went and reached for Tanner Rainey who’s shown that he has major league stuff and is kind of a reliable guy who can throw it over the plate,” Rizzo explained, in an interview with 106.7 the FAN’s Sports Junkies in late May, “and we think that he’ll help us, we went out and got Javy Guerra who’s a proven veteran relief pitcher who you trust is going to throw strikes and give you a chance to win and that type of thing.