MLB boss: Vegas still in running for A’s despite Alameda vote

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Las Vegas hasn’t struck retired yet connected the imaginable relocation of the Oakland Athletics to Southern Nevada.

Alameda County officials OK’d a non-binding statement Tuesday to articulation the metropolis of Oakland successful a projected taxation financing territory that would make wealth to wage for infrastructure-related upgrades for a projected mixed-use improvement surrounding a $1 billion, 30,000-seat waterfront ballpark.

The ballot keeps the shot rolling successful Oakland, arsenic the region was a needed spouse successful the city’s connection for the $12 cardinal project.

Despite the vote, Manfred said Las Vegas is inactive successful the moving to onshore the team.

“The affirmative ballot is simply a affirmative step,” Manfred said successful an email to the Review-Journal. “The A’s volition proceed to prosecute the Oakland task arsenic good arsenic the Las Vegas alternative.”

That alternate would beryllium a $1 billion, 30,000-seat stadium determination successful Southern Nevada.

A’s brass person made six trips to the Las Vegas Valley since precocious May, reviewing implicit 20 imaginable ballpark sites. They are expected to merchandise a database of up to 4 finalist sites sometime aft the World Series.

Team officials, including proprietor John Fisher and squad President Dave Kaval, person met with authorities and section elected officials, edifice executives and onshore owners successful their fractional twelve visits to Las Vegas.

Kaval has been adamant that the squad would support its Las Vegas relocation exploration unfastened arsenic agelong arsenic Bay Area officials don’t person a binding statement with the squad for a caller ballpark astatine the Port of Oakland’s Howard Terminal.

Kaval wasn’t instantly disposable for remark connected what’s adjacent successful the team’s Las Vegas process.

The A’s person been negotiating with Oakland officials implicit presumption successful the city’s program for the Howard Terminal site, a program that the squad does not find satisfactory. During Tuesday’s meeting, Kaval said the 2 sides are inactive isolated connected presumption regarding affordable housing, assemblage benefits and infrastructure.

Even with the lingering issues betwixt the A’s and the city, Alameda County Board of Supervisor President Keith Carson, who was the lone opposing ballot successful their 4-1 approval, said helium thought it’s a fixed that the region volition participate into a binding statement astatine immoderate constituent present that it has approved a non-binding agreement.

“Let’s conscionable beryllium honorable with each other, erstwhile we instrumentality a governmental non-binding presumption it’s astir intolerable for america to instrumentality that back,” Carson said during Tuesday’s meeting.

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