Mayor Valérie Plante says she’s looking forward to meeting Stephen Bronfman and Mitch Garber on Friday to discuss the return of a Montreal baseball franchise.

“In the next few days, I’ll be meeting the main promoters of the project to bring back baseball to Montreal,” Plante said Wednesday morning during a meeting of the city’s executive committee.

Bronfman and Garber head a group of investors in talks to land a Major League Baseball team for Montreal, through expansion or relocation of an existing franchise.

“So we’re going to chat about baseball,” Plante said.

She noted that while she didn’t attend last week’s exhibition games at the Olympic Stadium between the St. Louis Cardinals and Toronto Blue Jays because of a city council meeting and the provincial budget, some of her colleagues did go and took part in preliminary discussions with the promoters on the return of baseball.

“I can’t wait to look into the state of affairs, to get started on this issue and see how we can move forward and look at the possibility of bringing back a team to Montreal, because in Montreal, we love baseball,” she said.

Bronfman said last week he has no intention of seeking money from Montreal taxpayers, but he does need “help” from Plante.