The Oakland Athletics' sad stadium saga took a new turn late last week, when team president Dave Kaval announced that the A's had signed on to purchase a plot of land for a future ballpark in Las Vegas. It's not a done deal, but given team owner John Fisher's extended standoff with Oakland city officials and the Coliseum's decay into a possum-infested, sewage-splattered mess, the path forward clearly leads to Las Vegas.
That would at least extricate the A’s from their self-imposed cauldron of bad feelings in Oakland, but it comes with a whole host of new questions, such as where to put the Triple-A team. The Toronto Blue Jays trudged through 2020 and part of 2021 playing in minor-league parks in Buffalo and Dunedin, Florida, so it is possible, but that came without minor-league scheduling conflicts. Moving the Aviators entirely is not in the cards, according to Kaval.
If this team is going to return to the race, it’s going to require either a slow, painful accumulation of uncertain draft picks or an infusion of cash. So far, there’s no evidence that Fisher is willing to provide the latter.One thing many people are skipping over is the matter of whether Las Vegas is even a better host for a baseball team than Oakland.
The A's are signing themselves up to answer the question of whether the Las Vegas area can support top-level sports when the tourism influence is removed. Maybe the answer is yes, but it's far from a given. In pointing out the relatively small media market and lack of nearby metro areas from which to draw fans,Glitz and glam? Cultural momentum? Sure, Las Vegas has that cache right now.
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