A’s officially drop Oakland from team name

(TNS) The Athletics are Oaklands no more.

With the 2024 MLB season behind it, the Athletics have officially dropped the city from their team name.

The team will go by just the Athletics or As, starting Monday, when they play three seasons in West Sacramento at the Triple-A Sutter Health Park, the As announced in a statement Monday.

References to Oakland on the As various social media accounts were also scrubbed on Monday.

The MLB club announced that they will use a Green As logo as their new primary logo, while keeping their primary wordmark of the Athletics in green script.

The team isnt adopting Sacramento as part of its official name for the 2025-2027 MLB seasons, since the move is a temporary one.

The As plan to begin construction on their planned $1.5 billion, 33,000-fan capacity Las Vegas Strip ballpark in the spring and to begin playing there for the 2028 MLB season.

Once in Southern Nevada, the team will go by the Las Vegas Athletics and Las Vegas As.

Before work on the As Las Vegas ballpark can begin, the team must first finalize agreements with the Las Vegas Stadium Authority and Clark County.

The team will also need to provide proof that they have the needed capital to finance the stadiums construction..

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