Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred continues to make clear his position on where the A’s long-term home should be:
“I want the A’s to stay in Oakland,” he told the Los Angeles Times’ Bill Shaikin earlier this week. “It’s a very fundamental policy of baseball. We favor franchise stability. I think it is possible to get a stadium done in Oakland, and that remains my preference.”
These comments came in light of the Supreme Court declining to hear the city of San Jose’s antitrust lawsuit against MLB, which was tied in to the city’s efforts to lure the A’s from Oakland to the South Bay.