Well, congrats, Mark Lerner. You did it again. A year after he created some controversy by saying he believed Bryce Harper (who was still a free agent at that point) would not come back, the Nationals’ Managing Principal Owner told NBC Sports Washington’s Donald Dell that when it comes to Stephen Strasburg and Anthony Rendon, the team, “really can only afford to have one of those two guys.”
No one is quite buying that, it appears, least of all Scott Boras, the super-agent for both of the free agents, who told The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal today that he thinks after winning it all this year, “World Series momentum has blossomed, millions in DC.