The defending champions apparently won't be getting the band back together.
"We can really only afford to have one of those two guys," Washington Nationals managing principal owner Mark Lerner said of free agents Stephen Strasburg and Anthony Rendon in an interview with Donald Dell (h/t Todd Dybas of NBC Sports Washington.
"They're huge numbers," he continued. "We already have a really large payroll to begin with."
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