As the holiday break officially ends and everyone gets back to work, the Nationals’ front office will reconvene and confront perhaps the team’s most pressing question at the moment: Who’s on first?

That question has loomed since season’s end. While every other position around the diamond arguably already has a potential long-term solution in place, there’s nothing of the sort at first base.

In fact, there’s only one true first baseman on the 40-man roster right now, and that’s Andres Chaparro, who played in only 34 big league games last season and has never really been viewed as a long-term solution. The 26-year-old maybe could serve as the right-handed portion of a position platoon, but that option has never seemed like anyone’s first choice.

What about Luis Garcia Jr.? That possibility has not been ruled out, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see the 25-year-old get some reps at first base this spring. But nobody in an official role has suggested a full-time position switch for Garcia, who has played 508 of his 580 career MLB games at second base (and may or may not be a better defender at the corner position).

The Nationals have signed two moderately experienced first basemen to minor league deals in recent weeks in the form of Matt Mervis and Warming Bernabel. Mervis, a D.C. native, owns a paltry .165/.238/.322 slash line over 261 career MLB plate appearances, though it’s worth noting he’s homered in two of his six career plate appearances against his hometown team. Bernabel, 23, slashed .252/.288/.410 over 146 plate appearances with the Rockies last season.