(He tried. Screengrab of TV/MASN by Nationals Enquirer staff.)
Scratch another "top of the rotation" name off Mike Rizzo's list.
Matt Garza to the Cubs for prospects and a pound of flesh.
Pavano closing in on deal with the Twins, and apparently Rizzo was never really all that interested.
Greinke snubbed NatsTown, chose the Brewers. Cliff Lee was always just a pipe dream. Jorge De La Rosa picked the Rockies. There were other, lesser, names, but they're all gone too. Odalis Perez is probably available.
So what's a guy gotta do to land a starting pitcher these days?
Dave Nichols from Nationals News Network sums up Mike Rizzo's winter quite nicely.
And here's Tom Boswell's take on Rizzo's fruitless pursuit of that elusive starting pitching help from his Thursday chat on WashingtonPost.com:
That pitcher was Jorge de la Rosa AND Zack Greinke.
And there were moments when, in talking with (Rizzo), it felt like he t...
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