The Nats have a 1085-1084 regular season record under Rizzo. He's about to be a losing GM.
Rizzo has been a very good corporate citizen, which is why he’s lasted. More than winning, he’s paid to be a PR front for cheap media shy ownership. Just like Stan Kasten was. A creative, but opinionated, GM would never work here. Andrew Friedman or Billy Beane would never last with the Nats internal politics, even if their ideas could build cheap winners. This ownership likes conventional thinking, not innovation like openers or unusual platoons that they don’t understand. They understand spending as little as possible, and Rizzo understands he needs to cover that fact with PR about reboots and the farm, not with game altering strategies.
