Nationals fire general manager Mike Rizzo and manager Dave Martinez amid stalled rebuild

Washington’s citizens launched director Dave Martinez and General Manager Mike Reso, The team announced on Sunday.
“I want first and foremost to thank Mike and Divi for their contributions to our privilege and our city,” Lieutenant Mike Lenner said in a statement. “Our family is now grateful for years of its dedication to the organization, including their roles in bringing the World Championship Cup to Washington, DC, while we appreciate their previous successes, the performance on the field was not the place where we or our fans expect to move.
Lerner also announced that General Manager Assistant Mike Deparulo has been named as a substitute for RIZZO on a temporary basis. Debartolo will be instantly assigned to run the draft room for MLB draft next week, where citizens have the highest selection.
“Mike Deparulo is an intelligent and studied executive, and we are lucky to be as part of our organization,” Lerner said in the statement. “Given that we reserve the No. 1 selection in the MLB draft for this year and we look forward to the deadline for trade, we are confident of its ability to lead the basements of the basements during these following important months.”
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Martinez, 60, was in his eighth season as a citizen manager. During that period, he led the citizens to a record of 500-622 (446). In his second season, along with Rizu, Martinez led the citizens to the 93th season of wins and title in the world series with an exciting victory for seven games against Houston Astros favorite. However, since then, citizens have not managed the winning season and have not finished fourth in the department.
Citizens did not immediately mention a temporary director, saying that the advertisement would come “at some point on Monday.”
Rizzo, 64, has been a decision maker for citizens since March 2009. In addition to winning the world series in 2019 under Rizzo, citizens also won four titles in the department, recently in 2017. However, until 2019 they failed to advance until after the post -season series.
During the reign of Rizu and Martinez, citizens were slow to realize the rebuilding fruits that occurred after the 2019 title. He made it for the essence of Young changes the privilege, but RIZZO failed to build enough around this trio. Lerner has a lot of blame, giving up salary lists greatly in the years since 2019. Nevertheless, Riso and Martinez paid the price of rebuilding that achieved a successful basis but eventually resulted in bad results in the arrangement.
Talking about this, citizens this season is 37-53 with Minus-86 teams in last place in the Eastern National League. If you hold the steps, it will be the fifth place in the fifth place in the past six years. The only exception was 2024, when citizens lost 91 games and put fourth in NL East.