Mike Rizzo was interviewed on SXMSports by Jim Bowden and Craig Mish on Thursday. Rizzo says there will be a shortstop and a centerfield competition. Bowden says Werth will be the 4th outfielder on Opening Day, and Bowden made that prediction when Rizzo was not on the phone.
Coming up on our show today #Nationals GM Mike Rizzo 2:45pm et only on Sirius 210 XM 87 along side @CraigMish @JimBowden_ESPN #SXMSports
— Jim Bowden⚾️ (@JimBowdenGM) February 18, 2016
SXM: Tell us about West Palm Beach and the proximity to other teams?
Rizzo: “That’s the key to the whole thing Jim. You have access to other teams. It’s not only for big league spring training which is for 6 weeks but we are constantly playing games with our Minor League guys. We are using it as our year round rehab facility, there’s instructional ball, there’s all sorts of things going on and it just makes it so convenient to have 4 teams within 15 minutes of you—it really saves the wear and tear on your players and allows them to play more baseball and to develop better just because they’re getting more repetition as they aren’t sitting on a bus all day.”
more fun than the “baseball” segment—in my opinion. We were told we couldn’t video because “proprietary information” was coming out. And maybe it did, if you count the design of bobbleheads and the alignment of vendors on the Gallery Level as proprietary. But go ahead and talk about everything on social media, we were encouraged. Anyway, Valerie stayed on the platform when Mike Rizzo, garbed in a signature checked shirt, sat down and gave us not much that we hadn’t read in the newspaper or on Twitter. He was patient and charming, but no secrets were revealed. Two topics were mildly interesting, Jonathan Papelbon and the Nats’ medical staff.
