{"id":549417,"date":"2026-02-01T19:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/549417\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:42:33","slug":"mlb-tells-athletics-to-explore-relocation-if-no-new-ballpark-portland-a-possibility-oregon-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/549417\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB tells Athletics to explore relocation if no new ballpark; Portland a possibility | Oregon \/ Northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_summarycontent\" class=\"summary ap-serif d-block mb-3 p-0\">OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Major League Baseball has instructed the Athletics to explore relocation options as the team tries to secure the new ballpark it hopes for to stay in Oakland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary ap-serif d-block mb-3 p-0\">MLB released a statement expressing its longtime concern that the current Coliseum site is \u201cnot a viable option for the future vision of baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary ap-serif d-block mb-3 p-0\">A\u2019s owner John Fisher said in a statement he will honor MLB\u2019s instructions but remains committed to continuing to pursue the waterfront ballpark proposed for construction in the city\u2019s Howard Terminal location, close to the popular Jack London Square neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has mentioned as possible expansion candidates: Charlotte, North Carolina; Las Vegas; Montreal; Nashville, Tennessee; Portland, Oregon; and Vancouver, British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>                More Oregon \/ Northwest News<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Major League Baseball has instructed the Athletics to explore relocation options as the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,4,3226,11431],"class_list":{"0":"post-549417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-athletics","12":"tag-regional"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115997084764580720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}