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The Senators moved and were replaced with an expansion Washington Senators team for 1961. The old Washington Senators became the new Minnesota Twins; the expansion Senators would become the Texas Rangers in 1972, and baseball would not return to the city until 2005, when the former Montreal Expos became the Washington Nationals.
June 4, 1970: 1970 Major League Baseball draft. Rick Waits was drafted by the Senators in the 5th round. [9] Bruce Sutter was drafted by the Senators in the 21st round, but did not sign. [10] August 19, 1970: John Roseboro was released by the Senators. [2] September 11, 1970: Lee Maye was selected off waivers from the Senators by the Chicago ...
This category includes players from the second Washington Senators franchise, which was an American League expansion team in 1961. They moved to Arlington, Texas in 1972 and became the Texas Rangers.
The 1971 Washington Senators season involved the Senators finishing fifth in the American League East with a record of 63 wins and 96 losses (.396). This was the Senators' 11th and last season in Washington, D.C.; they moved to Arlington, Texas, and became the Texas Rangers in 1972.
The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared at least in one game for the Minnesota Twins American League franchise (1961–present), also known previously as the Washington Senators (1901–1960).
The Washington Senators baseball team was one of the American League's first expansion franchises. The club was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1961 to replace the recently departed Washington Senators who moved to Minnesota as the Minnesota Twins .
Both teams participated in Major League Baseball's first ever expansion draft. The Senators used their first pick in the 1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft to select pitcher Bobby Shantz from the New York Yankees (while the Angels picked Eli Grba). Grba wound up playing two-plus seasons for Los Angeles before returning to the minor leagues.
1965 Washington Senators team page at Baseball Reference; 1965 Washington Senators team page at www.baseball-almanac.com; Johnson, Lloyd; Wolff, Miles, eds. (1997). The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (2nd ed.). Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America. ISBN 978-0-9637189-8-3
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