Expos / Nationals - The Turn of the Twenty First Century (2000-2009)
 
   
 
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      Yr City P W L   Yr City P W L   Yr City P W L           2000  
      2000 Montreal 4 67 95   2003 Montreal 4 83 79   2007 Washington 4 73 89           Decade  
      2001 Montreal 5 68 94   2004 Montreal 5 67 75   2008 Washington 5 59 102           Click  
      2002 Montreal 2 83 79   2005 Washington 5 81 81   2009 Washington 5 59 103           on Logo  
                  2006 Washington 5 71 91                          
                                                       
                                                             
   
  Titles: Top Expos Players of the Oughts  
  None  
    Pitchers:  
  Ballpark: Chad Cordero (7.59) -   40  
  Stad Olympique (2000 - 2004) Livan Hernandez (14.67) -   40  
  RFK Stadium (2005 - 2007) Javier Vazquez (19.53) -   39  
  Nationals Park (2008 - 2009) Tony Armas (9.05) -   26  
    Tomokazu Ohka (9.26) -   17  
  Team Name: John Lannan (6.58) -   15  
  Expos (2000 -2004) Luis Ayala (5.48) -   12  
  Nationals (2005 - 2009) Rocky Biddle (2.77) -   11  
    Zach Day (3.84) -   7  
  Owner:  Jon Rauch (5.54) -   6  
  Jeffrey Loria (2000 -2002)  
  Major League Baseball (2003 - 2006) Catchers:  
  Ted Lerner (2006 - 2009) Brian Schneider (6.69) -   33  
    Michael Barrett (2.12) -   12  
  General Managers:    
  Jim Beattie (2000 - 2001) First Basemen:  
  Larry Beinfest (2001) Nick Johnson (11.15) -   28  
  Omar Minaya (2001 - 2004) Lee Stevens (0.59) -   12  
  Jim Bowden (2005 - 2009)    
    Second Basemen:  
  Managers: Jose Vidro (15.86) -   42  
  Felipe Alou (2000 - 2001)    
  Jeff Torborg (2001) ShortStop:  
  Frank Robinson (2002 - 2006) Orlando Cabrera (7.73) -   38  
  Manny Acta (2007 - 2009) Cristian Guzman (5.96) -   20  
  Jim Riggleman (2009)    
    Third Base:  
  Hall of Famers: Ryan Zimmerman (18.25) -   28  
  Vladimir Guerrero    
    Outfield:  
  Rookie of the Year:  Vladimir Guerrero (21.12) -   53  
  None Brad Wilkerson (10.78) -   34  
e   Ryan Church (5.98) -   15  
e MVP Alfonso Soriano (6.08) -   14  
e None Endy Chavez (2.84) -   13  
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e No Hitters: Notable Events:  
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  Cy Young: 2002 - Major League baseball hires Omar Minaya to run the club.  
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     2002 - The Expos unexpectedly contend. Omar Minaya, in a desperate,   
  Notable Events: last ditch attempt to save the club in Montreal (at the time baseball was  
   trying to eliminate the Expos), makes a horrendous, but understandable,   
  2000 - As the decade opens, owner Jeffrey Loria is looking to move the Expos deal for Cleveland ace Bartolo Colon, trading Cliff Lee, Grady Sizemore   
  out of Montreal. The city had offered 100 million towards building a new ballpark and Brandon Phillips. The deal makes you cringe just looking at it.  
  and LaBatt Breweries offered to sponsor the new park which would open in  Anyway, the Expos falter, don't make the playoffs, and it all goes to naught.   
  2002 as LaBatt Parc. Unfortunately for Montreal fans, Loria wants more.    
    2003 - Minaya gets a little of it back, stealing righthander Livan    
  2000 - Lots of good young talent on the roster and in the organization. Hernandez, 28, from the Giants for Jim Brower and Matt Blank (who?).  
   Despite the dire financial straits of the club, high quality GM's such as  
   Dave Dombrowski, Dan Duquette, Kevin Malone and Jim Beattie kept the  2003 - Righty reliever Chad Cordero, 21, is the 20th overall pick of the    
  talent at a competitive level in the midst of all of the defections due to draft, he is brought up to majors in August  
   free agency and salary dumps:    
  □  2B - Jose Vidro, 25, 6th round '82 draft 2004 - The inevitable dropping of the other shoe as Vladimir Guerrero  
  □  SS - Orlando Cabrera, 25, IFA '93  signs with the Angels as a free agent. Montreal drops sixteen games  
   □  3B - Michael Barrett, 23, 1st round '95 draft  in the standings.  This one hurt, badly.  
  □  OF - Rondell White, 28, 1st round '90 draft  
  □  OF - Vladimir Guerrero, 25, future HOF, IFA '93 2004 - SS Ian Desmond, 18, is selected in the 3rd round of the draft,    
  □  C - Brian Schneider, 23, 5th round '95 draft rookie in 2009  
  □  IF - Geoff Blum, 27, 7th round '94 draft    
  □  P - Javier Vasquez, 23, 5th round '94 draft 2005 - 3B Ryan Zimmerman, 20, is the fourth overall pick of the draft,  
  □  P - Dustin Hermanson, 27, trade with Florida for Cliff Floyd '97  he is brought up to the majors in September  
  □  P - Tony Armas, 21, trade with Boston for Pedro Martinez '98    
  □  P - Carl Pavano, 24, trade with Boston for Pedro Martinez '98  2005 - The lawsuit of the fourteen ex-Expo owners against Loria and major  
  □  P - Ugueth Urbina, 26, IFA '90 league baseball is settled in Loria's favor. There are now no legal impediments  
  □  OF - Milton Bradley, 22, 2nd round '96 preventing the Expos from moving out of Montreal.  
  □  2B - Brandon Phillips, 19 (minors), 2nd round '99, rookie in 2002    
  □  OF - Brad Wilkerson, 23, (minors), 1st round '98, rookie in 2001 2005 - The team is moved to Washington.  
     No owner yet. The National league still owns the club.    
  Plus the following players are drafted in 2000: Ironically, almost exactly 100 years earlier, the league (the American back then)   
   □  CF Grady Sizemore, 17, 3rd round of draft, rookie in 2004   had to take over operation of that former Washington club  
  □  Lefty Cliff Lee, 22, 4th round of draft, rookie in 2002 Meanwhile, this team moves into RFK Stadium which was still around and had   
   □  OF Jason Bay, 21, 22nd round of draft, traded away in 2002 been used by the old Washington Senators in the Sixties and whose owner,  
     also ironically, had left for greener pastures.  
  2002 - Jeffrey Loria sells the Expos to major league baseball and uses   The club draws 2.7 million fans which makes them an attractive buy.  
  the proceeds to buy the Florida Marlins, who had been owned by John    
  Henry. Henry, in turn, uses the proceeds from that sale to buy the Boston 2006 - Ted Lerner buys the team and all becomes well. Jim Bowden is    
  Red Sox. Major League baseball overpaid Loria for the Expos (112 million) retained as GM. It turns out that Major League baseball makes a huge  
  and gave him an interest free loan of 46 million so that he could pay Henry.  windfall in the deal as Lerner pays 450 million for the club.   
  Major League baseball owners had voted unanimously to contract the The price covers major league baseball's losses to both Loria and Henry.   
  major leagues by two teams, the Expos and the Minnesota Twins. It turns out that everyone involved in the deal benefitted at the expense  
  However, a lawsuit brought by those governing the Twins ballpark, the of the city of Montreal, which now did not have a major league baseball team.  
  Metrodome, against the Major Leagues for breach of contract put the     
  kibosh on the contraction.  2007 Righty Jordan Zimmerman, 20, is selected in the 2nd round   
    of the draft, rookie in '09  
  2002 - Loria originally bought a piece of the Expos in '98 for 50 million.    
  He then bought out other members of the Montreal ownership 2008 - Righty reliever Tyler Clippard, 23, is stolen from the Yankees  
  consortium one by one until he had 92% ownership of the club.  in a trade for Jonathan Albaladejo (who?)  
  When he tried to sell the team to major league baseball, the     
  fourteen original owners sued claiming that Loria had misled them and 2008 - Nationals Park opens. Things are looking up for the franchise   
  undermined the team's operation so that he would force a move   despite the club hitting rock bottom on the field, losing over 100 games.   
  out of Montreal. They said they never would have sold to Loria  They repeat the over one hundred losses again in 2009.  
  if they had known that he had no intention of staying in Montreal.    
  This lawsuit kept the Expos in Montreal as a lame duck thru 2004.