I would strongly suspect that it would mean that the pitchers would have to hit (and there’d still be a nine-man batting order).
Re; Vegas - could Allegiant Stadium be used as a temporary home for a Vegas team? Possibly similar to LA Coliseum, NY Polo Grounds, or Toronto Exhibition Stadium dimensions where teams have played in the past?
Very unlikely. Modern NFL stadiums are purpose-built for football only, and don’t have the on-field room, and/or adjustable seating areas, that the old multi-purpose stadiums had - their “field level” area is pretty much the minimum space for an NFL field, plus the required space surrounding the field itself for the sideline benches, equipment, etc; thus, they couldn’t provide the sort of field dimensions that are needed for an MLB playing field.
The sorts of wacky dimensions that places like the LA Coliseum had for baseball in decades past (i.e., the super-short porch to left field) are no longer allowed for new MLB stadiums – I believe that new stadiums need to have a minimum of 325’ down the foul lines, and 400’ to center, though minor variations are apparently allowed.
After what Raiders owner Al Davis said about the A’s screwing over the Bay Area, I doubt he’d want them to co-inhabit their stadium again, anyway.
I think you mean Mark Davis (Al’s son); Al has had very little to say about the A’s, or much of anything else, since 2011, being dead and all. 
Indeed. Tropicana Field in Houston was only 315’ straight down the third base line.
Minute Maid Park. Right product, wrong company sponsor.
Tropicana was Tampa Bay, wasn’t it?
Thanks for the correction. I realized I was wrong as soon as I saw the notification.
Question: What will happen to the Aviators now that the A’s are taking over their city?
I agree that the A’s will probably move for the 2024 season. They’ll get more fans in Vegas even if they end up playing at UNLV. No reason building the new stadium should take 4 years. Allegiant didn’t take that long and it’s a much bigger build.
I guess the Aviators have to fold or find a new home. The A’s could just keep them there and share the park with them I guess, but practically speaking you need a new home for them, and that home really does need to be somewhere on the western side of the continent. There are some available cities like Tuscon or Calgary, but you’d need an AAA park.
That’s the part I find weird. The Braves’ new park took just over two years to build. Globe Life in Texas took two and a half. The Marlins’ stadium, which was very innovative, took less than three years. On top of that, all those stadia were built for teams remaining in the area, so there wasn’t the same gross situation to face and no huge rush to get out of town.
coughOaklandcough
That may be… unwise.
Are there still post-Covid supply chain issues?
Were those times from groundbreaking to opening, or from the start of the design process to opening? The article on the Vegas site, from last week, seems to indicate that they’re just now in the initial stages of an agreement for the site itself (the financing of which is not yet finalized), which makes me suspect that there isn’t even a finalized stadium design yet.
IIRC, it took less than a year for the design of Globe Life. There aren’t that many architectural firms who handle the big stadium designs, so they are all used to that sort of work, and I wouldn’t expect it to take much more than that amount of time for any of them to design another ballpark. Plus the 2-3 years for actual construction.
They should have a very good shot at having the park ready by 2027 as long as they get the firms lined up in the near future.
As well as getting the purchase agreement for the property, and the financing, finalized.
True enough.
Though it is Las Vegas. If the reputation is to be believed, they know how to grease wheels on big construction projects.
I was thinking the same thing – if there’s anywhere in the U.S. where such a deal could be consummated quickly, it’d be Vegas.
Is the Portland stadium still available for baseball or was it renovated too much to host soccer?
There are also several large (for AA) and fairly new stadiums they might move into bumping a AA team. Wichita Kansas seats 10,000 and was built in 2020. Frisco TX and Springfield MO have stadiums seating over 10,000 built in the 2000s. There current stadium seats only about 9000 so all of those would be bigger.
Going into today the AL East is 57-24 against opponents not in the AL East. All three AL wild cards are in the AL East right now.