When you run a team with extreme contempt for its city and its fans, you shouldn't expect to get a lot of local support. After yet another offseason of cost-cutting moves, the Oakland Athletics were outdrawn by 11 Triple-A games Tuesday evening.
Yeah, you're reading that properly. Eleven Triple-A teams beat the A's attendance Tuesday. Not only that, but four Triple-A teams had more than double the amount of fans than the Athletics.That's really sad for an MLB team ... if you can refer to the Athletics as that. Team owner John Fisher seems intent of moving the team out of Oakland. The city and Fisher have been at odds for what feels like a decade now, and things are reaching a critical point.
Rebuilding can be a effective strategy for some teams, but that's not what the Athletics are doing here. The team has made little to no attempt to lock up players like Murphy or Olson to long-term deals. One of the key names the team received in the Olson deal — outfielder Cristian Pache — was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies in March after he failed to make the Athletics' 26-man roster. Pache received just 260 plate appearances with the Athletics after being acquired by the team.
Fisher's entire strategy seems to boil down to making the team as unpalatable as possible to try and strengthen his argument for leaving Oakland before. The low attendance is a feature of that approach for Fisher, not a bug. If no one in Oakland is coming to games, Fisher can more easily argue Oakland has turned into an unsustainable market for baseball and take the team elsewhere. It's as if the plot of"Major League" has become a reality in Oakland.
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