Milwaukee Brewers chairman Mark Attanasio is part of a three owner relocation committee that will review the Oakland A’s relocation application and will forward the application to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred. The relocation vote is expected to take place in mid November amongst the 30 baseball owners. (file photo by Bally Sports)

MLB-Owners will vote in November regarding A’s Relocation

That’s Amaury News and Commentary

By Amaury Pi-González

OAKLAND–It is now official. The major league baseball owners are scheduled to vote in November regarding authorization for the A’s to move from Oakland to Las Vegas. This vote is expected during the owners’ meeting in mid-November. The A’s need 75 percent of the owners to vote Yes, which is scheduled after the A’s submitted their relocation papers in August, according to what A’s owner John Fisher told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The MLB relocation committee is currently reviewing the A’s relocation papers. This committee includes Milwaukee Brewers chairman Mark Attanasio, Philadelphia Phillies CEO John Middleton, and Kansas City Royals CEO John Sherman.

Once they are finished reviewing this application, it will go directly to the Office of Commissioner Rob Manfred and the eight-man executive council with a recommendation.

Then the executive council will review their findings and make their recommendation to the 30 MLB clubs, before the vote in November. MLB expects all this to be resolved before their MLB Winter Meetings which will take place in Nashville, Tennessee from Dec 4 – 7,2023, which mostly deals with  the teams administrative business, trades, players contracts and so on.

If all this “committee business” sounds to you like something politicians do in Washington,D.C., it is because of all the major professional sports leagues in the country. Major League Baseball Is the oldest of the major American leagues and in cases of this importance (relocation) they do operate like the US Congress.

Note: The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world with millions of items a variety of formats. The world’s largest collection of things related to baseball is housed at the Library of Congress,in Washington, D.C.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the vice president of the Major League Baseball Hispanic Heritage Hall of Fame Museum and does News and Commentary at http://www.sportsradioservice.com