{"id":21306,"date":"2024-04-04T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T15:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21306"},"modified":"2024-04-04T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T15:28:05","slug":"heading-to-vegas-via-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/heading-to-vegas-via-sacramento\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading To Vegas&#8230; Via Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/oakland-athletics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9273\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/oakland-athletics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/oakland-athletics.jpg 312w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/oakland-athletics-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/oakland-athletics-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/heading-to-vegas\/\">November<\/a>, MLB owners approved the relocation of the A\u2019s from Oakland to Las Vegas, where the team hopes to have a stadium built by the 2028 season.\u00a0 A fine plan all around, except that the team&#8217;s current lease in Oakland expires after this season, leaving them in a bit of a bind for the 2025-2027 seasons.\u00a0 After failing to reach a deal with Oakland for an extension, the Sacramento Kings announced today that the A&#8217;s will play the next three seasons in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Sutter Health Park, the current home of the Sacramento River Cats of the Pacific Coast League, will house the A&#8217;s for through the 2027 season, with an option for 2028.\u00a0 The River Cats are expected to continue to use the stadium as well, which I&#8217;m sure will cause no scheduling issues whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>The move will end the team&#8217;s stay in Oakland at 57 seasons, after previously calling Philadelphia and Kansas City home.\u00a0 Assuming they ever make it to Vegas, and that seems less likely now than it did in November, the A\u2019s will become the first franchise to have played in five different municipalities while using the same name.\u00a0 On a personal note, removing Oakland Coliseum from my active stadium count means I would now have eleven parks to get to in order to finish off the set.\u00a0 I\u2019ve made two trips to the stadium once known as Oakland\u2013Alameda County Coliseum, first in 1999 and again in 2008, seeing the Tigers and Orioles respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last November, MLB owners approved the relocation of the A\u2019s from Oakland to Las Vegas, where the team hopes to have a stadium built by the 2028 season.\u00a0 A fine plan all around, except that the team&#8217;s current lease in Oakland expires after this season, leaving them in a bit of a bind for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[123,11207,2244,3272,50,11210,11209,11208,230],"class_list":["post-21306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-kings","tag-mlb","tag-oakland-coliseum","tag-orioles","tag-pacific-coast-league","tag-river-cats","tag-sutter-health-park","tag-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21307,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306\/revisions\/21307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}