“We’ve conducted a great amount of due diligence ahead of the vote,” Aguero said in a telephone interview. Sports news site the Athletic reported that the owners are expected to clear the move Thursday. So does Andrew Zimbalist, a sports economist at Smith College, in large part because of what he sees as MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s support for the plan. Jeremy Aguero of Applied Analysis, who’s advising the A’s as well as Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo on efforts to build a stadium in Las Vegas, expects the relocation to win approval. The club needs to win over at least 75% of the other owners to move ahead with the plan to leave Oakland after 55 years in the Bay Area, all in the same ballpark - the aging Coliseum. The 30 owners are convening in Arlington, Texas, starting Tuesday for a quarterly meeting, and the team’s prospective move is on the docket. (Bloomberg) - Major League Baseball owners are poised to vote this week on whether to allow the Oakland Athletics to move to Las Vegas, amid lingering questions about the team’s proposed new home stadium and where the club would play while the venue is being built.
