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Oakland Athletics to Make Important Uniform Change When Team Plays in Sacramento

When the A's move to Sacramento for the 2025 season, they'll do so with a slightly different uniform.

Brady Farkas

A general view of an Oakland Athletics baseball jersey uniform number 42 on Jackie Robinson Day before the game against the New York Mets at RingCentral Coliseum in 2023.
A general view of an Oakland Athletics baseball jersey uniform number 42 on Jackie Robinson Day before the game against the New York Mets at RingCentral Coliseum in 2023. / Robert Edwards-USA TODAY Sports
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When the Oakland Athletics move to Sacramento for the 2025-2027 seasons, they'll do so with a small, but significant, uniform alteration.

Instead of reading "Oakland" across the uniforms, the script will read "Athletics."

The comments were made to a Las Vegas paper by A's leadership, and SportsLogos.net had the comments and more:

When the Oakland A's move to Sacramento, temporarily, for the 2025 through '27 seasons, their uniforms won't read Sacramento or Oakland or California or Bay Area, not even "Vegas or Bust!"

From the article, which links to the original article:

When the team is playing at its interim home in California’s capital city, it will not have a area designation. To that, the players’ jerseys will read the same no matter where they are playing during those three seasons.

“In Sacramento we’ll be playing with the Athletics across the jersey, home and away,” Kaval said.

With that information in tow, including further confirmation that the team will play with no city designation (so, just “The Athletics”?)...

The A's announced that they were leaving Oakland after this season and will play in Sacramento for at least the 2025, 2026 and 2027 seasons. They will hope to be ready to play in Las Vegas for the 2028 season, but there have been issues and concerns around the ballpark site and development plan.

The A's are currently 26-43 on the season and haven't made the playoffs since the 2020 season. They had the worst record in baseball in 2023 and will take on the Padres on Wednesday afternoon.

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BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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