Reports: A's to play 2025 season in Sacramento

Field Level Media|published: Thu 4th April, 10:10 2024

General view of the lower bowl seating at Oakland Coliseum with cardboard cutout fans during a 2020 Oakland Athletics game. credits: Stan Szeto-USA TODAY Sports

The Oakland Athletics are set for a one-year residency in Sacramento for the 2025 season while awaiting their new digs in Las Vegas, according to multiple reports.

Multiple outlets reported Sacramento was set to approve an agreement for the A's "to play temporarily" at Sutter Health Park, home of the Sacramento River Cats.

The measure would be a stopgap for the A's, whose lease at the Oakland Coliseum expires at the end of the current baseball season.

Major League Baseball approved the Athletics proposal for relocation from Oakland to Las Vegas in November.

Plans are in place for a $1.5 billion, nine-acre stadium at the site of the Tropicana Hotel with the City of Las Vegas granting $380 million in public funding for construction in 2023. But the ballpark will not open until at least the end of the 2027 calendar year, meaning the first season it could host the A's in the regular season would be 2028.

Sutter Health Park has 10,624 seats but could be modified to accommodate up to 14,000.

—Field Level Media