That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary
by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

PHOENIX AZ–The A’s will be moving next season to a new beautiful stadium for training camp next spring training in Mesa. The Cubs who play there will share the park with the A’s. The A’s will be moving out of Phoenix to Mesa, The A’s and Cubs are two of the original teams that have been in Arizona to train for a long, long time.

Now there is 15 big league clubs training in the Cactus League half of the Major League Baseball teams who train in Arizona. One of the reasons is the location like today I’m going to Glendale which is the home of the Chicago White Sox and they host the Oakland A’s and from Tempe it’s 20-30 minutes.

Most of these towns are within 40-45 minutes drive from one another, Peoria, Glendale, Phoenix, Scottsdale, and the location is the perfect thing, it’s great for the economy and baseball generates millions and millions of dollars every year the hotels are sold out.

Everybody comes to see their favorite team, everybody is in first place of course the regular season starts in Sydney with the Dodgers and Diamondbacks. It’s always a great thing to come over here to watch the A’s and Giants who were some of the first teams to train here in the Cactus League including the Chicago Cubs.

Now you have the Dodgers who used to train in Vero Beach Florida for 60 years, the Royals moved to Arizona from Florida. So it’s great for baseball and it’s great for the economy and I have ran into a lot of baseball fans, and the Cactus League is just a great atmosphere and I would reccomend the experience of coming down here to anybody.

The weather here has been very nice 84-85 everyday which for the Bay Area is very hot but here it’s just spring. You come back here in July it’s 110 degrees but this is the perfect time for Arizona.

The Oakland A’s this week who lost pitcher Jarrod Parker to Tommy John surgery will most likely use Jessie Chavez to start. Chavez was used in long relief now will get the call to start. A’s manager Bob Melvin will be starting some guys and also pitcher P.J. Griffin has tendonitis and is not as bad as Parker but will miss games.

Parker will be lost for the rest of this year and maybe he’ll be back for 2015 to pitch, Griffin is out too, Yoenis Cespedes has been in a slump in spring training, with a week and a half left of camp the A’s will be impacted and when you lose the number one pitcher it’s a big hit for any team.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for Oakland A’s baseball and does News and Commentary each week for Sportstalk radio