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Nationals hire GM Rizzo's dad as adviser (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

The Washington Nationals' latest front-office addition might be tempted to order his new boss around. That's because senior advisor to the general manager Phil Rizzo is the father of Washington GM Mike Rizzo. A baseball scout for more than four decades and now nine major league franchises, the elder Rizzo joined the Nationals on Thursday, a little more than three months after his son was...