Ian Desmond will be a free agent next winter, but the Washington Nationals infielder insists that he won't be distracted this season.

"I owe it to everybody here to give my 100 percent concentration and that's what I'm going to do," Desmond said. "All the other stuff is really not going to be talked about. It's time to go."

The Nationals and Desmond's representatives aren't believed to have had any significant talks on a new deal.

It was reported this offseason that Desmond was nearly traded to the New York Mets in a three-team deal.

"You can't really put too much stock into it because I never really heard from Mike [Rizzo]," Desmond said. "I never heard from anybody. The only thing I did heard was [manager] Matt [Williams] calling me and telling me, 'You are not getting traded.'"