Professional Career
The Montreal Expos selected Sizemore in the third round of the 2000 MLB Draft. The team offered him a $2 million signing bonus to lure him away from college, to which Sizemore agreed.
On June 27, 2002, Sizemore was part of a six-player trade between the Indians and the Expos. Montreal dealt Sizemore, along with Cliff Lee, Brandon Phillips and Lee Stevens to Cleveland in exchange for Bartolo Colón and Tim Drew.
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