The wife of Tim Raines, free-agent outfielder,...

The wife of Tim Raines, free-agent outfielder, has given the latest and strongest indication that her husband will return to the Montreal Expos on May 1.

“You can bet on Tim coming back to the Expos,” Virginia Raines said in published reports. “If somebody offers $1.5 million--that’s the only way (he’ll play somewhere else).”