A’s Extend Manager Mark Kotsay’s Contract Through 2028 — The Year Athletics Hope To Open New $1.75 Billion Domed Stadium On Strip
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
If the Athletics can open their new stadium in Las Vegas in 2028, they will have a manager lined up for the same year.
That’s because the A’s said this week the Major League Baseball team has extended the contract of manager Mark Kotsay through the 2028 season with a club option for 2029.
Here’s a video of Kotsay and A’s General Manager David Forst courtesy of the Athletics showing their reactions to the manager’s contract extension:
The A’s in Dec. 2021 named Kotsay as the franchise’s 31st manager when he signed a three-year deal through 2024 with a club option for 2025. The A’s exercised the option for 2025 on Nov. 7, 2023.
The A’s say they want to break ground at the former Tropicana hotel-casino site on the Strip in either April, May or June before they build a $1.75 billion, 30,000-seat domed stadium at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue.
The Athletics received $380 million in a stadium construction subsidy under a 2023 Nevada state bill, but the A’s say they will use $350 million of it with owner John Fisher pledging more than $1 billion toward the A’s ballpark on the Strip.
Crews are removing debris from the Tropicana hotel implosion in October and want to have to a clean slate of a site for the stadium. The A’s say they can build their stadium on only nine acres of the 35-acre site on the Strip.
Bally’s Corp., which owned the Tropicana hotel, is planning a new resort next to the stadium that would be attached via a pedestrian bridge. Here’s a plan showing the A’ stadium and the hotel that Bally’s wants to build.
The A’s are holding spring training in Mesa, Arizona and plan to play their regular season games in West Sacramento in 2025, 2026 and 2027 while the stadium is built in Las Vegas.
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