Jim Riggleman Resigns As Manager Of Washington Nationals

With that in mind, this comes as a total shock, from MLB.com’s William Ladson:

I just learned that Jim Riggleman has resigned as manager of the #Nats.When a manager resigns from a team that’s going well, the first inclination is to assume there is some sort of personal reason for doing so. According to Ken Rosenthal, though, the reasons are very much business related:

Riggleman apparently upset that option had not been picked up, upset over way he was treated by Nationals.