Major League Baseball laid out a detailed process to approve the Oakland Athletics move to Las Vegas, which appears set to become the second shift of a franchise in the last half-century.
"I feel sorry for the fans in Oakland. I do not like this outcome. I understand why they feel the way they do," baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday following an owners meeting, a day after theManfred said Oakland will file a relocation application and he will establish a relocation committee, which would define operating territory and broadcast territory. That group will make a recommendation that will go the sport's executive council and then to full ownership.
"The owners as a whole understand that there has been a multiyear, approaching a decade effort, where for a vast majority of the time the sole focus was Oakland," he said."What is it that Oakland was prepared to do? There is no Oakland offer." Las Vegas would become the fourth home for a franchise that started in Philadelphia from 1901-54, moved to Kansas City for 13 seasons and arrived in Oakland for 1968.
The A's would be the second MLB team to change cities in more than a half-century. Since the Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers for 1972, the only team to relocate has been the Montreal Expos, who became the Washington Nationals in 2005. After announcing plans to build ballparks at Fremont , San Jose and the Oakland waterfront , the A's said on April 19
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