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Despite a disappointing season on numerous fronts, the A’s are looking to establish deeper roots in both their interim home and their future one.
As the club played its final 2025 game Sunday, it also unveiled a new alternate jersey for 2026, reading “Sacramento” on the front. The gold jersey will be used next year for every Saturday home game in a promotion called “Sacramento Saturdays,” and it represents a sizable departure for the club as it will play the second of three planned seasons at Sutter Health Park, a minor league facility.
After leaving Oakland, the A’s deviated from sports industry norms and ended the use of any geographic signifier. Despite the alternate jersey, there is still no such designation, but it’s a rather notable step.
“The new ‘Sacramento’ jersey is our way of recognizing the support and saying thank you to the fans, business, and community leaders who helped bring Major League Baseball to town,” said A’s president Marc Badain.
The shift comes as the team this year repeated its status as the lowest attendance draw in MLB, averaging just 9,487 per game, and reaching 10,000 in a home game just twice after the All-Star break.
Mixed Use in Sin City
Plans for a new ballpark in Las Vegas, meanwhile, are gaining a further level of ambition as Bally’s Corp., the team’s partner in the greater ballpark development, unveiled its plan Monday for Bally’s Las Vegas, an “entertainment resort destination.” In addition to the ballpark itself, the 35-acre, mixed-use development will include two luxury hotel towers with a total of 3,000 rooms, a 2,500-seat entertainment venue, and more than 500,000 square feet of retail, dining, and other entertainment space stretched across four levels.
The entire effort is located along the famed Las Vegas Strip, and will repurpose the space cleared after last year’s demolition of the Tropicana Las Vegas resort. A cost estimate for the surrounding Bally’s development has not been disclosed, though the work will be completed in phases. The ballpark itself now will cost more than $2 billion.
The concept, in a broad sense, is similar to the mixed-use developments involving other MLB clubs such as the Braves, Rangers, and Cardinals, but not surprisingly, leans heavily in to Las Vegas culture.
“Bally’s Las Vegas represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to redefine the heart of the Strip,” said Bally’s chair Soo Kim. “We are not just building an integrated resort. We are creating a landmark destination that unites sports, entertainment, dining, and hospitality on a scale only Las Vegas can deliver.”
The A’s finished the 2025 season with a 76–86 record, fourth in the American League West division. The mark was a seven-game improvement from 2024, but after reaching a franchise-record payroll of $113.8 million—in part to resolve growing concerns about the club’s use of revenue-sharing funds—the performance was still a letdown.
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