Mike Rizzo Was Set Up To Fail I BMitch & Finlay

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Tobi believes the Lerners should be blamed for Mike Rizzo's failures.

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00:00Look, I'm not going to be a massive Rizzo defender

00:02because I think part of the reason that they got to where they are

00:06as a franchise right now is the inability of Rizzo

00:10and his development staff, his front office,

00:14to be able to draft guys and then develop them into big leaguers

00:16because there was no one to step in when Rendon left.

00:19There was no one to step in when Trey Turner left.

00:21There was no one to step in when Juan Soto was gone.

00:24So that falls on Mike Rizzo.

00:27So you're not going to hear me fully defending Rizzo,

00:29but in terms of this, absolutely, that's not on Rizzo.

00:33Look, did he make the wrong decision in signing Colin Poche

00:37and signing Lucas Sims and signing Jorge Lopez?

00:41If you asked Mike, I bet you he'd tell you,

00:44absolutely, I made the wrong decision

00:45because they're not on the ball club anymore.

00:47But did he have the resources necessary to build a winning bullpen?

00:51No, he did not.

00:53Do you think that if, be real, Nationals fans

00:56that just want to blame everything on Rizzo

00:58because I don't know that there's tons of these people.

01:00I think most people understand where this is at,

01:02but some people are just so over Rizzo.

01:05But be real.

01:06Do you think that in this offseason,

01:08when Mike Rizzo for years and years

01:10has been talking about kind of this time frame,

01:13I think when you first asked him about this rebuild,

01:16he was thinking it was going to start seeing

01:18the fruition of it come through last year.

01:21It didn't.

01:21So then he had to push the timeline back.

01:23But do you really think that in the time this season,

01:26when James Wood is in the bigs,

01:27Dylan Cruz is in the bigs,

01:29CJ, McKenzie, those guys are all here.

01:31You got Brady House knocking on the door.

01:33You had all these guys ready to go

01:35in terms of the young stars of this team.

01:37Do you really think that what he wanted to do

01:39this offseason was spend $9 million on Mike Soroka

01:42and trade for Nathaniel Lowe

01:44and that's his two biggest moves?

01:45There's no chance.

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