Washington Nationals sign general manager Mike Rizzo to a multiyear extension

Mike Rizzo spent his first five years with the Washington Nationals painstakingly assembling a roster designed to make the club competitive enough to win a World Series.That vision became a reality in 2019 when the star-laden Nationals <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nationals-strasburg-retirement-721b6f32e1256d527d8ea322e7ec04f8" xmlns="http://iptc.org/std/NITF/2006-10-18/">won the franchise's only championship</a>. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]