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A's President: Team Aiming To Have New Ballpark Deal By Year's End

Kaval (l) said that he is still aiming for the A's to have a deal for a new ballpark by year's endGETTY IMAGES

Despite "repeated setbacks and one outright rejection, the A's aren’t giving up" on any of the three potential ballpark sites the club has been working on in Oakland, according to Matier & Ross of the S.F. CHRONICLE. A's President Dave Kaval said that he is "still aiming for the A's to have a deal for a new ballpark -- somewhere -- by year's end." Kaval: "That's kind of our deadline." Matier & Ross note the latest bad news for the A's was Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District GM Grace Crunican's letter to the team that "nixed the idea of building a station" near a possible ballpark site on the Oakland waterfront because it would be "costly and too disruptive to transit service." Kaval said, "I don't think one letter rules out a BART station." However, he "acknowledged that a station at the Howard Terminal site might not happen until well after a ballpark is built." The A's setback with BART "follows the 'no go'" by the Peralta Community College District BOT for the team's "preferred ballpark site next to Laney College." Kaval said the third option of rebuilding at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum is now "probably the front-runner" in terms of getting a ballpark built quickly. But he added that its location -- five miles from downtown -- is "still a problem" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 2/21). MLB.com's Jane Lee noted Kaval has maintained that any new ballpark would be 100% "privately financed" (MLB.com, 2/20).

TERMINAL VELOCITY: THE ATHLETIC's Julian McWilliams noted MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred "recently took a tour of Howard Terminal," and judging by his comments, selecting a site for a new A's ballpark "isn't in the immediate future." He said that there are "positive aspects to the site at Howard Terminal." Manfred: "Any time you have the ability to build a ballpark (close) to the water it can be a big positive." He added, "It's a lot of work to be done in Oakland in terms of figuring out the more difficult issues. I'm not going to dwell on those other than to mention financing, and there are transportation issues. With respect to that site, it would need some good, hard thinking and investment in order to make this site work to its maximum potential" (THEATHLETIC.com, 2/21).

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