Overview
- Sacramento held a public pitch this week that formally entered the city into MLB's expansion conversation and promoted a West Sacramento site for a new team.
- Local backers told reporters they have assembled roughly $1.8 billion in proposed public‑private commitments for a 35,000–40,000-seat ballpark, though no controlling lead investor has been publicly confirmed.
- The Athletics' temporary stay in Sacramento is being used as a market test, but A's home attendance has been the lowest in the league and organizers acknowledge that ticket demand remains a concern.
- Several anonymous owners and executives have publicly questioned expansion's finances, saying one-time expansion fees would not cover recurring revenue‑sharing costs and at least one owner called expansion "stupid."
- MLB says key prerequisites — a new collective bargaining agreement, formal expansion‑fee and ownership rules and other stadium outcomes — must be settled before it sets a process or timetable for adding teams.