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No, the Oakland Athletics aren’t going to move to Las Vegas or probably anywhere else
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The Oakland Athletics play in the worst stadium in the major leagues, the last dinosaur that was built for both football and baseball and is suitable for neither. Its football tenant, the Raiders, decamped for Las Vegas two years ago, leaving the A’s to deal with the stadium’s bad sightlines, acres of unusable seats and sewage.
As a result of all that, Major League Baseball recently gave the A’s permission to look to relocate in a statement, quoted by Jeff Passan at ESPN:
Cubs alternate site wrap: Jason Adam still needs some more work
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I will NOT be doing an “alternate site wrap” every night.
Not that I would have expected this from Josh, because there aren’t any published boxscores or stats from the alternate site games.
Nevertheless, you are getting at least one “alternate site wrap,” from me, because Wednesday afternoon I attended a Cubs vs. White Sox alternate site game, hosted by the Sox, who are using the Frontier League’s Schaumburg Boomers park, Wintrust Field, as their alternate site.
The teams are taking somewhat of a different approach to these games, at least as indicated by the starting lineups. The Cubs lineup was mostly the guys you would have seen playing the last few innings of games this spring in Mesa. The Sox, meanwhile, had two players in their lineup who have had MLB time this year Danny Mendick and Nick Williams. Mendick, in fact, had played fairly well (6-for-16, five walks) in limited duty be