Montreal Expos (fictional)

The Montreal Expos (French: Les Expos de Montréal) are a Canadian professional baseball team based in,. Founded in 1969, the Expos were the first Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located outside the United States. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) East division. Since 2013, their home stadium has been Vidéotron Park in the off-island suburb of. The Expos play spring training games at Seagram Park in, United States.

In 2004, MLB announced the Expos would relocate to for the 2005 season to become the Washington Nationals. After fan protests and threats of legal action from the city of Montreal and the Quebec government, a compromise was reached in late 2004 that allowed the league to establish the Washington Nationals as a new franchise while retaining the contracts of all Expos personnel. The Expos' intellectual property, including team name, logos, mascot (, who wound up being transferred to the Montreal Canadiens during the wait), and history, was sold to and kept in trust by the, and the franchise was regarded by the MLB as suspended, with a new team to be established by 2010 either by expansion or relocation. The Expos were announced as an expansion team in 2007, participated in the 2009 Major League Baseball expansion draft and resumed play in 2010.

Since resuming operations in 2010, the Expos have had considerable success on-and-off, including back-to-back first overall picks in the MLB draft in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

The broadcasting rights for the Expos are currently split between BCE Inc. (locally for CKMR-DT), Groupe TVA, and Rogers Sports & Media.

2020 season: Temporarily in Atlantic City
On July 24, 2020, it was announced that the Montreal Expos would play a majority of their home games in, at their High-A affiliate Atlantic City Otters' ballpark , as the Canadian government disallowed the Expos and their opponents from playing in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally, they were to temporarily move to their Triple-A affiliate Baton Rouge Expos' ballpark, however Surf Stadium was considered to be more "geographically close" to Montreal.

2021 season: Temporarily in Oro Valley and Atlantic City
The Montreal Expos played their home games at Seagram Park in until June 1 when they moved back to Surf Stadium in Atlantic City. On July 16, the Expos announced that they would finally return to Vidéotron Park in Terrebonne on July 30 after the Canadian government allowed the Expos and their opponents to play in Canada.