After two successful years of crowds approaching 50,000, baseball is coming back to Montreal.The Blue Jays and Red Sox will reportedly play a pair of exhibitions games at Olympic Stadium on April 1 and 2 ahead of the 2016 Major League Baseball season. An official announcement is expected Friday.Montreal, which lost its franchise following the 2004 season, has proven in recent years—as speculation and rumours mount about a potential permanent return to the city—that its appetite for baseball is still strong. Olympic Stadium drew close to 100,000 fans in 2014 for a pair of exhibition games between the Blue Jays and Mets. The great, lively showing helped secure games in 2015, too, when Toronto and the Reds played two contests that also approached the century mark for attendance.Montreal was home to MLB's first Canadian baseball team when the club debuted in the Quebec province's largest city in 1969. The Expos remained there until 2004 before moving to Washington, where the Nationals have called home since.Commissioner Rob Manfred said earlier this year that he'd love to see another team in Canada in addition to the Blue Jays, but also acknowledged that work needs to be done—such as finding a suitable stadium to play out of—before any real talks advance regarding a return to Montreal."Let me say this about Montreal, the mayor is an enthusiastic supporter of bringing baseball back to Montreal, point one," Manfred said, according to Sportsnet's Shi Davidi. "Point two, I happen to believe that Montreal has a great baseball history, which is a nice thing. Point three, the market supported wildly two exhibition games each of the last two years, the number for the weekend each time was over 90,000. Having said all of that, it's a long way from two exhibition games to 81 home games and a facility that is consistent with major-league standards."At the very least, next April's games will provide Montreal with another chance to prove its a viable baseball market.