So what now?

Good morning, Nationals fans. Your team just made the biggest move of the offseason.

Max Scherzer is coming aboard, according to multiple reports, on a seven-year contract that will pay him upwards of $180 million. This is without a doubt the biggest move of the baseball offseason, a signing that would have brought a 100-loss team into the national conversation.

The difference here is that it takes a team that won the most games in the National League last year and only ups its standing as we head into spring training.

We all knew that this would be an interesting offseason for this organization. The Nats had what many people felt was the most talented roster in baseball last year, only to fall short in the postseason. Jordan Zimmermann, Ian Desmond, Doug Fister, Denard Span and Tyler Clippard were all entering their walk years. There were no real holes to fill outside of finding a second baseman, and yet things could have gone so many different ways.

The question now is what general manager Mike Rizzo chooses to do now that he's taken what was likely the best rotation in baseball and given it some extra firepower.

Make no mistake, this deal gives the Nats plenty of options.

Rizzo is certainly getting loads of calls and texts this morning about his other starters, with teams asking what it would take to get Zimmermann, Fister or even one of the starters who the Nats have under contract for longer terms. Scherzer's signing gives the Nats the ability to add prospects in a trade for another starter, reloading the organization on that front and taking a longer-term view of things while also being ready to compete in 2015.

But if no offer overwhelms Rizzo, or if he is just inclined to really go for it this season, then 2015 just got even more interesting. A rotation of Stephen Strasburg, Zimmermann, Scherzer, Fister and Gio Gonzalez, with a 15-game winner and guy who posted a 2.85 ERA in 198 2/3 innings last season in Tanner Roark in the bullpen, could be decent.

Decent.

So that's the question with spring training set to begin a month from now. No one could fault Rizzo for trading one of his starters and adding pieces for future seasons. But if he doesn't, the Nats are the clear-cut World Series favorite in 2015, if they weren't already.