While Bryce Harper potentially hitting free agency next winter figures to be the big story (we all want to avoid) in 2018, there are plenty of other Nationals who will be free agents after this season.
USA TODAY’s Bob Nightengale wrote yesterday that, “... this is likely the last year Bryce Harper wears a Nationals uniform before he departs for the greatest riches in baseball history,” and Daniel Murphy and Gio Gonzalez could become free agents next winter as well, if not extended by Washington beforehand, but “... perhaps, most scary for the Nationals,” the reporter added, is the fact that this could, potentially, be the, “.