Major League Baseball laid out a detailed process to approve the Oakland Athletics move to Las Vegas, which appears set to become the second shift of a franchise in the last half-century.
“I feel sorry for the fans in Oakland. I do not like this outcome. I understand why they feel the way they do,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday following an owners meeting, a day after the Nevada Legislature approved public funding for a ballpark.
Manfred said Oakland will file a relocation application and he will establish a relocation committee, which would define operating territory and broadcast territory. That group will make a recommendation that will go the sport’s executive council and then to full ownership.
