![]() Even with a brand new park, the A’s have four or five candidates in line ahead of them depending on how Tampa Bay shakes out. Following the usual two-year construction period for an MLB-quality stadium, the A’s would look to move into their new home in 2025 - which lines up with an expired Coliseum lease after 2024.īut don’t expect green and gold All-Star jerseys just three years from now. Assuming all goes well through the summer and the current expected timeline holds true, ground could break on the Howard Terminal park early next year. The continued development of the Howard Terminal ballpark changed that story though. But much like the Rays situation, MLB probably doesn’t want to showcase the 56-year-old concrete dive bar that the A’s call home. So where do the A’s fit into this? Well, similar to the Dodgers it’s been awhile since Oakland hosted the game, 35 years in fact. ![]() Tampa Bay will likely get the chance to host once a new stadium gets figured out for the Rays, rather than showcasing an aging dome that first hosted an NHL team. Four other parks have yet to host the All-Star Game: Tropicana Field, new Yankee Stadium, Truist Park (which just opened in 2017), and Globe Life Field (opened in 2020), and among them all but the Trop seem likely to host during the next decade. ![]() In the last 20 years of ASGs, only three games have not been the first hosted by that stadium: last year’s sudden replacement game at Coors Field 2012 at Kauffman which followed a major park refurbishment in 20 at old Yankee Stadium which was used as a sendoff to the old park before new Yankee Stadium opened in 2009.Ĭurrently the only announced future ASGs are next year’s at T-Mobile Park in Seattle (following 20 renos), and Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia in 2026 (first ASG since the park opened in 2004, also coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence). MLB loves to use the All-Star Game as a way to showcase the league’s newest and shiniest stadiums. That last point gets to one of the most critical factors that MLB uses to decide what team hosts the game: the stadium. The last time the Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the All-Star game was in 1980, and 40 years later they got the nod again a) because it had been four decades since one of the highest profile teams in a major population centre hosted, and b) with recent upgrades and renovations to the park, the Dodgers have no plan to move out of Dodger Stadium any time soon. It’s being held in Dodger Stadium for the second time ever, and played in LA as a make-up in scheduling after the 2020 game originally scheduled in Chavez Ravine was cancelled due to the pandemic. Next week brings the 2022 MLB All-Star Game.
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