Happy Wednesday, Athletics Nation!
Susan Slusser at the San Francisco Chronicle highlighted the pros of Sacramento hosting the A’s from 2025 to 2027, after the team’s lease at the Oakland Coliseum expires but before the new ballpark in Vegas opens, which is projected to happen ahead of the 2028 season.
In many ways, Sacramento is a more attractive destination than Las Vegas, and mayor Darrel Steinberg believes that providing temporary housing for the A’s would be a good opportunity for the city to demonstrate its worthiness of an MLB expansion team.
“I am over the moon about the possibility,” Steinberg said yesterday.