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According to Jayson Stark of ESPN, the Washington Nationals have ambitious plans for the offseason as the club aims to redo its lackluster bullpen.

"I’ve now heard from three teams in the last few days that [the] Nationals want to deal both [Jonathan] Papelbon and [Drew] Storen, while chasing [Darren] O'Day, [Aroldis] Chapman and others," Stark tweeted.

Step 1 in that bold plan is to find a taker for the 35-year-old Papelbon, who attempted to choke out Bryce Harper in an unfortunate dugout dust-up last September.

With a 2.13 ERA and an 8.0 strikeout-per-nine ratio while splitting the campaign between the nation's capital and Philadelphia, Papelbon, who earned his sixth All-Star nod last summer, actually put up some strong numbers.

The problematic number is the $11 million salary that the reliever is set to earn in 2016. At the price tag, the Nats' best chance of unloading Papelbon would be to eat some of that salary or to potentially even attach him to a prospect in a deal.