{"id":843895,"date":"2026-09-25T22:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/843895\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T22:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:21:15","slug":"utah-jazz-mammoth-owner-ryan-smith-signals-interest-in-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/843895\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz, Mammoth owner Ryan Smith signals interest in MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV)  \u2014 Utah Jazz and Utah Mammoth owner Ryan Smith said his group would be \u201caggressive\u201d if an opportunity emerged to bring Major League Baseball to Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Smith made the comments in an interview with Front Office Sports.<\/p>\n<p>MORE | Utah\u2019s MLB Expansion Bid:<\/p>\n<p>The Larry H. Miller Company already leads the Big League Utah effort to bring an MLB team to Salt Lake City. The group has proposed a ballpark site and secured state funding.<\/p>\n<p>MLB has not opened a formal expansion process, though Salt Lake City has been viewed as a potential expansion market.<\/p>\n<p>The Miller family reportedly has an agreement connected to an expansion bid, meaning the two groups could need to work together if Utah lands a team.<\/p>\n<p>_____<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) \u2014 Utah Jazz and Utah Mammoth owner Ryan Smith said his group would be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,6,422,427,3972],"class_list":["post-843895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-utah-jazz","tag-basketball","tag-jazz","tag-nba","tag-utah","tag-utah-jazz","tag-utahjazz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117334014904638867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}