Bryce Harper left the 2018 season screaming from the rooftops he would love to remain a National, if... "I'm in those plans," a polite and public way of putting the ball in the club's court.
That after, during All-Star Week, Harper dropped a trail of clues behind him signaling, for the optimists, that he preferred to return. There was also of course his very public profession of love for Washington, D.C. throughout the entire Home Run Derby, sporting a D.C. flag headband and pointing to it as he recorded his heroic comeback victory.
Who could forget the time he blocked out his entire Instagram with a mural of him thanking D.C. fans?
Maybe there will be a continuation of the Story tomorrow...
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