The owner, who said a year earlier that the team was off the market, added this was not the offseason to add payroll. The Nationals rank 24th in that category.

Readers respond to local issues such as the Nationals’ agreement ending with MASN, a rejected Virginia state park and more.

The long nightmare of servitude under the grimy bootheel of the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network appears, finally, to be nearly ...

But there was also some uncertainty about the future leadership when the Lerner family, led by patriarch Mark, was "exploring their options" when it came to a potential sale of the team.

MLB awarded the former Montreal Expos franchise to the Lerner family, which paid $450 million for it in 2006; the Nationals are now worth an estimated $2 billion, according to Forbes. In 2022 ...