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If the Oakland A's leave for Las Vegas, the East Bay will still have a baseball team to root for.
The Oakland B's.
A consortium of dozens of Oakland-area fans, led by a pair of high school friends, banded together to start the Oakland Ballers -- also known as the B's -- who plan to play in the independent Pioneer League starting this summer wearing the same green and gold as the A's.
The team's co-founders, Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel, told ESPN they've hired former Seattle Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu, who went to high school in nearby Hayward, California, as executive vice president of baseball operations.