The Nationals offered free-agent outfielder Jermaine Dye a contract, but he declined to accept it. Dye said the pact wasn't enough to uproot his family from Arizona. "I'm sure it was as much as they could do," said Dye of the offer. "With the economy, they can only offer so much. I'm sure with that team and that payroll, what they had to offer was their best. I look at the whole situation: Living in Phoenix, Arizona -- this will be my [15th] year in the big leagues -- and Washington being on the East Coast, that's not like one of the first teams that is going to jump out at me. "I'm not going to take my family all the way to Washington. With the offer that they made, it would maybe have to be a little bit more than other clubs have offered me in the past. I'm just not going to take my family all the way to Washington just to play."