All Michael Soroka wanted from the offseason was a team willing to make the same bet that he did. The 27-year-old right-hander believed he could return to the starting rotation after finishing 2024 in the bullpen.
It wasn't so much a conversation of me trying to sell them on that fact,' Soroka said. 'It was more a conversation that that is what they saw.'
Soroka fills that need, rather than a spot in an inexperienced Washington bullpen. In this move, the Nationals signaled a willingness to take on some risk because it came with upside and an affordable cost.
The murky four-year gap that followed included a pandemic, two Achilles' injuries, a trade and just 46 innings on a big league mound.
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