The Mayor of Oakland met with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred to discuss a new stadium for the Oakland Athletics.
The franchise looks set to relocate as the Nevada State Legislature approved a $380million bill to help finance a new stadium on the Tropicana hotel site along the Vegas strip in June. The A’s have been based in Oakland since 1968 and are keen to open their proposed new venue in time for the 2028 season.
But Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is desperate to keep the franchise in the city, especially after the Golden State Warriors moved out to San Francisco. Manfred claimed that Oakland had not made an offer to keep the Athletics in the city and had “never got to a point where they had a plan to build a stadium at any site.”
