2024 Record: 69-93
Cruising up the 5 from Anaheim to a location slightly further northeast than needed for the past 58 years, the Sacramento Athletics are the next stop on our AL West preview for the Mariners fan who likes to know what they’re up against. I’ll be referring to the A’s as “Sacramento” intermittently through this series and the next few years at least. If their owner John Fisher, a noted (albeit for failure) businessman best known for being born to the people who founded The Gap and inheriting shares in his parents company worth over $3 billion back in the early 2000s, wished to keep them in a big league ballpark in Oakland for the intervening years while he attempts to convince Las Vegas and Nevada to build him a ballpark in the next three years, they could have stayed.