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Guide Note: The Washington Nationals are a professional baseball team that plays in the Eastern Division of the National League. For a listing of teams and their divisions, see Major League Baseball Teams.
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Nicknamed "The Nats", the Washington Nationals are based in the District of Columbia. The team was actually the Montreal Expos from 1969 until 2004 when they relocated to D.C. and chose a new name.
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MLB.com's Bill Ladson reports Washington Nationals 3B Ryan Zimmerman will not travel to Roger Dean Stadium for the team's road exhibition opener Wednesday, Feb. 27. Manager Manny Acta plans on holding some of his regulars back to play only in home games, so that they won't be overworked in exhibition play.
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The Nationals’ 2007 season began with the team trying to win their 1st National League East title since they have moved to Washington. Before the 2007 season started, the Nationals replaced manager Frank Robinson with former Montreal coach Manny Acta. The team lost their several players through trades and free agency. The most notable of those players were Ramón Ortiz, José Guillén, José Vidro, and Alfonso Soriano. Washington signed few ML free agents. The most experienced of them is probably Dmitri Young.
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After the 1899 season, the Washington Senators of the National League folded in the 12-8 contraction, when the American League began play in 1901 Washington, not wanting to confuse fans with the previous franchise, began calling themselves the Nationals in 1905. However, the fans never took to the name and called them the Senators. In 1912, when Griffith was named manager, newspaper writers referred to them as the 'Grifs'. In the early 1950s the team changed logos to one incorporating 'NATIONALS' within it, after the fans continued to reject the name they were officially renamed Senators in 1956.
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Bill Ladson, of Nationals.MLB.com, reports the Washington Nationals have signed former MLB 2B Bret Boone to a non-guaranteed minor league contract. Boone, who has not played in the major leagues since 2005, will begin working out at the team's Accelerated Development Program for Minor Leaguers Tuesday, Feb. 19.
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