Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals will not be sold after nearly two years exploring options, team owner Mark Lerner said.
Lerner announced in April 2022 that it would enter an exploratory process to sell the team, but on Monday he told the Washington Post that the family has opted not to sell the Nationals in a decision made “a while ago.”
“We have determined, our family has determined, that we are not going to sell the team,” Lerner said.
“Nothing has really changed,” he added. “We’ve just decided that it’s not the time or the place for it. We’re very happy owning the team and bringing us back a ring one day.”
The Lerner family bought the Nationals from Major League Baseball in 2006 for $450 million, shortly after the team moved from Montreal, Canada, in 2004
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