Most teams want to deliver the good news before it happens. That is how you excite the fan base and sell more season ticket packages for the upcoming season.
The Washington Nationals seem to always play it safe and never want to over-promise and then under-perform. You want to spend the offseason on positivity when you know you are building to win.
All of the words from general manager Mike Rizzo point to increased spending by the Nationals, but they won't say those words specifically. Instead we just know that Riz wants to pitching and add middle-of-the-order bats.
Once the Orioles were quickly knocked out of the 2024 postseason, they were signaling increased spending for the 2025 season, immediately. They didn't want to talk about the bad news of being knocked out of the playoffs - they wanted to dangle the future in front of the fans.
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