CINCINNATI – Major League Baseball remains hopeful the Tampa Bay Rays and Oakland Athletics will be able to obtain new ballparks without relocating yet will examine other markets in case a team needs to move or the sport decides to expand.
Tampa Bay is last in the major leagues in average home attendance at 14,731 and Oakland is 26th at 22,369. Twenty-two of the 30 clubs have opened new stadiums since 1990, and the Rays and A’s are the only teams currently seeking new homes.
The Rays play in St. Petersburg’s Tropicana Field, which opened in 1990.