A’s make latest Spring Training roster cuts

The following release is courtesy of Athletics Communications

The Athletics optioned right-handed pitchers Elvis Alvarado, J.T. Ginn and Grant Holman, infielder Darell Hernaiz, and outfielder Esteury Ruiz to Triple-A Las Vegas, the club announced today.  The A’s also reassigned four non-roster invitees to their minor league camp, including left-handed pitcher Matt Krook, catcher Willie MacIver and infielders Logan Davidson and Alejo Lopez.

The A’s now have 33 players in camp, which includes 31 players on the 40-man roster and two non-roster invitees.  The breakdown includes 16 pitchers, two catchers, nine infielders and six outfielders.

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The Athletics will be wearing a reminder of their eventual home on their jerseys this season.

The A’s will wear a “Las Vegas” patch on their sleeves, thanks to a three-year sponsorship deal with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The A’s will be playing the next three seasons at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento, Calif., then are scheduled to move into a new stadium in Las Vegas for the 2028 season.

Unable to secure a stadium deal in Oakland, the A’s left the city it had called home since 1968 after last season.

“We’re going to be partners for a very, very long time, and we really thought that during these three years of interim play in Sacramento that celebrating coming to Vegas was something that was really important,” team owner John Fisher told The Athletic.

The deal will pay the Athletics $2.5 million in 2025, with the amount going up an additional $250,000 in each subsequent year of the agreement, according to Steve Hill, head of the LVCVA, per The Athletic.

The team that makes the most on its sponsorship deal is believed to be the New York Yankees, who earn roughly $25 million a year from their deal with Starr Insurance, according to the report.

Although the A’s will display the name of their future home on their sleeves, their jerseys will not bear the name of the city they actually play in, Sacramento, across the front. Before moving to their permanent home, they will be known as just the A’s or Athletics.

The Vegas patch will appear on each player’s dominant arm. The team will wear a Sacramento patch on the opposite sleeve.

“We’re very excited to be opening the season shortly here in Sacramento,” Fisher said. “It’s a great city and one that’s been extremely supportive of our coming here. But it’s always been clear from the beginning that our years in Sacramento were going to be interim years. I think Sacramento is an incredible market for an expansion team down the road, but we’re coming to Las Vegas, and so we felt that it was appropriate and was the right thing to just be the Athletics during those interim years.”

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Athletics to mark future in Las Vegas with jersey patch

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