The proposal was made by the resettlement committee of The big leagues and has been evaluated and approved by the owners of the remaining 29 participating teams MLB, during their annual meeting at the hotel in Arlington, Texas, near Globe Life Field, Texas Rangers, current league champions.
In 2024, the team will continue to play in Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland.
Las Vegas It will be the fourth headquarters athletics, from the foundation in Philadelphia between 1901 and 1954, continuing through Kansas City, where they played 13 seasons, until Oakland in 1968
With the approval of this new headquarters, the A’s became the first team to move cities since The Expos left Montreal and they went to washington, Like State 2005.
Approved stadium
Before the approval for the move was given Athleticsthe team was already certain to have its own stadium in Las Vegas, after the legislature and governor of Nevada approved financing for a baseball stadium for a billion and a half dollars.
Among the characteristics of what will be the new home Athleticsdetermines that the stage must have 30,000 seats and a retractable roof.
The building will be built in the vicinity of ul Allegiant Stadium, where the NFL Raiders moved in 2020, who also left town Oakland and T-Mobile Arena.
During this season The big leaguesfollower group Aathletics They called for various demonstrations during the games in which they asked the owners not to move the franchise from Oakland and even to sell the team, and among these voices they added former pitcher Trevor May who, after announcing his retirement, asked the main owner John Fisher leave let other people take over the team and leave Oakland.
Among the arguments raised by activists against Fisher are his lack of commitment to the city, as well as his lack of investment in maintenance players. Athletics as a competitive team, as it was before taking over the franchise in 2005.
In an effort to avoid MLB approval, the protesters singled out 15 owners of the largest market franchises in the Major Leagues, such as John Henry, of the Boston Red Sox, or Hal Steinbrenner, of the New York Yankees, to whom they sent some green and yellow boxes with a postcard in which they expressed: “Keep Athletics in Oakland.”
In the final maneuver, the plane with the same message, “Keep the A’s in Oakland,” He flew over the hotel where the team owners were staying before the vote on the fate of the A’s.
It seems that the sports spectacle has turned its back on Oakland, since the departure of the Athletics from this area is joined by the Raiders (2020) and Golden State Warriors, in the NBAwho for the 2019-20 season left Oracle Arena and went to Chase Center, in the neighboring city of San Francisco.
Source: Panama America
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