The city-nameless Athletics have broken ground on a new stadium in Las Vegas on Monday, though the wait for completion will take three years.

Based for now in Sacramento, California, the Athletics will eventually play in the $1.75 billion baseball stadium that the organization broke ground on. The Athletics spent the previous 56 years in Oakland before the implementation of a move to Las Vegas this year, and that includes a temporary home at West Sacramento’s Triple-A minor league stadium Sutter Health Park for the next three seasons.

“I have no doubt this is done in 2028,” Athletics team president Marc Badain told reporters on June 23 regarding the Vegas stadium. “You know the workforce here; they’re all here and ready to get going.

“It’s nice to see the validation a day like today brings and what the next three years will mean for the community and for the construction project and the jobs and everything else that you’re going to see as this building comes out of the ground starting as early as tonight,” he added.

Present to mark the progress was MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, Athletics owner John Fisher, Athletics legends Dave Stewart and Rollie Fingers, Nevada and Las Vegas government leaders, and Little League baseball players. Fisher pronounced that “we are Vegas’ team” during the ceremony.

“We are a local team,” Fisher told reporters. “And we want to start from the youngest of fans, because if you can get the kids, you can get their parents. It takes less time than you think; what really takes time is ... to have a winner.

This year’s Athletics aren’t winners and sit in the last place spot for the AL West at 32–48 overall through Monday. That’s 6.5 games back of the Texas Rangers (38–41) in division standings, and the Athletics have the second-worst record in the AL and third-worst in all of baseball.

“Our goal is to continue to build upon what we have, and building a team is like building anything else,” Fisher said. “Sometimes, it takes more time than you want it to. It’s like building the stadium. And we think that we have the pieces to make ourselves really successful.”

Athletics shortstop Jacob Wilson, 23, has been promising this season with a .349 batting average, nine home runs, and 40 RBI. Left fielder Tyler Soderstrom, 23, has a .253 average plus 14 home runs, and 45 RBI.

Pitching is a significant area for growth with the Athletics, however. Only one pitcher, 32-year-old Sean Newcomb, has an ERA below 3.50 at 3.14 in 14.1 innings this season.

While the Athletics build the on-field product, the players wear patches for both the temporary and long-term homes on their jerseys. The Athletics moved from Oakland after the lease ended at the Oakland Coliseum following the 2024 season.

Another former Oakland team, the NFL’s Raiders, stayed the duration of the transition to Las Vegas, but the Athletics didn’t garner enough fan support to justify staying three more years. Vegas, meanwhile, will soon have four major professional sports teams between the Raiders, Athletics, NHL’s Golden Knights, and WNBA’s Aces.

Manfred, who was previously involved in the Raiders’ move, sees this as a golden opportunity for the Athletics. The new stadium will seat 33,000 and feature a dome with a large glass outfield window with the city skyline in the background.

“I think that the demographics, the success that other sports have had and the amount of tourism here, those three legs of the stool make this an ideal market for us,” Manfred said. “I have no doubt that this team is going to be really successful in Vegas.”

Overall, the Athletics have been a vagabond franchise with a fourth home on the horizon in Vegas. The Athletics began in Philadelphia in 1901 before a move to Kansas City in 1955, followed by the 1968 move to Oakland.