The Oakland A's have chosen Sacramento, not Salt Lake City, as their temporary home.
FILE - Reuben Ortiz of Modesto, Calif., holds a sign outside Oakland Coliseum to protest the Oakland Athletics' planned move to Las Vegas, before a baseball game between the Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays in Oakland, Calif., June 13, 2023. The Athletics’ move to Las Vegas was unanimously approved Thursday, Nov 16, 2023 by Major League Baseball team owners.
Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento will host the A's for the 2025-27 seasons - ahead of the team's move to Vegas in 2028.the use of their under-construction ballpark in Daybreak, South Jordan, earlier this year. The Triple-A Salt Lake Bees would have stayed downtown in Salt Lake City at Smith’s Ballpark under the proposed plan. But the A’s chose to stay closer to their fanbase — and in an easier-to-negotiate TV market — in Oakland.
The city of Oakland also made efforts to keep the team there in recent days, but reviled team owner John Fisher announced that their proposed offer was “far apart” from what A’s management was looking for. The team’s TV deal with NBC Sports California is worth up to $67 million per year, though will likely be renegotiated in the wake of the move.
The deal means that Utah will have to wait to receive a Major League Baseball franchise — if it gets one at all. Instead of accepting a temporary relocation, the 30 current major-league owners will have to agree to accept an expansion bid from the Miller family and Salt Lake City, along with the proposed plan to build a ballpark in the Fairpark district. Utah’s state Legislature routed $900 million dollars to the proposed construction of a major-league stadium in the session this winter.
Without the A’s, Smith’s Ballpark is still slated to sit empty after October 2024, when the Salt Lake Bees will move to their new home. Salt Lake City government has taken proposals, but has made no firm commitments about the future of the site at 1300 S and West Temple.Opinion: Recent reproductive rulings don’t seek to protect children. They seek to control women like me.
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