Oakland Athletics Make Despicable Decision as Relocation Delays

As the Oakland Athletics prepare for a temporary move to Sacramento and then a permanent move to Las Vegas, several team employees will reportedly lose their jobs.

According to San Francisco Chronicle reporter Susan Slusser on social media:

A’s are sending a message to as many as half of their non-baseball operations employees: “This is beyond terrible,” one tells me. Which departments have been decimated, plus severance packages:

A report in April indicated that Sacramento’s employees would be a mix of staffers from the A’s, the River Cats (a Triple-A team with which the A’s will share the stadium) and the Sacramento Kings, who will be in their off-season starting in June.

This is just another example of how the A’s have done just about everything wrong recently. After a lengthy stadium battle with the Bay Area, the A’s decided to relocate, devastating the area’s fans and ruining the area’s major league history.

Additionally, A’s owner John Fisher slashed the salaries of already cheap minor league players during the 2020 COVID season. That alone has given him one of the worst reputations in the league, and it only fuels it.

The A’s enter Saturday’s game 38-61 and in last place in the American League West. Considering they’ll be playing in a minor league stadium that regularly gets to 100-plus degrees next year, it’s hard to believe the A’s will do any better next year, given the difficulty of signing free agents in those conditions.

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