Jonathan Papelbon’s updated no-trade list has one very interesting exception.

According to ESPN, the Yankees are among the 12 teams to which the divisive closer can be traded without his approval.

The Nationals are believed to open to unloading the 35-year-old right-hander, who provided the lasting image of an underachieving 2015 season by choking superstar Bryce Harper in the team’s dugout in the middle of a game.

Under the terms of Papelbon’s contract, which is set to pay him $11 million in 2016, the crotch-grabbing, nostril-flaring former Red Sox legend can specify 17 teams to be covered by a no-trade provision. The other 11 teams who don’t need Papelbon’s permission to acquire him — two former employers, the Red Sox and Phillies, plus the Mets, Cubs, Indians, Tigers, Angels, Rays, Cardinals, Padres, Giants — are unchanged from last season.

The ESPN report did not broach the Yankees’ potential interest, though it’s hard to imagine a fit — as in a match; he’d definitely throw a fit — after years of enmity on opposite sides of the Boston-New York rivalry. The Yankees already have shopped another well-paid, more effective closer this offseason in Andrew Miller.