"The first email arrived to the entire baseball operations staff around 3 p.m. on Feb 1. The surprise was in the sender: Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo, who rarely corresponds via email. The pride was in the topic: "Congratulations." Baseball America, one of the industry's pre-eminent publications, had ranked the Nationals' farm system No. 1, and Rizzo felt it apt to express his thoughts to everyone who'd had a part in achieving that benchmark."