A’s release season tickets for West Sacramento. Here’s what they cost and what’s included
Season tickets to watch the Athletics play their home games at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento are on sale.
The A’s officially released season tickets to the general public on Monday that will be available until Thursday, Jan. 9, or until their inventory sells out, whichever comes first, the team said. The first Major League Baseball game to be played in the capital region will happen March 31 against the Chicago Cubs.
The cost for their standard season tickets range from $39 to $170 per seat. Benefits of having a season ticket account include a 15% discount at the team store, free MLB.TV subscriptions, invites to ticket holder events and early access to other events at Sutter Health Park. Tickets are available on the team’s website.
The team began selling premium tickets in June and has sold out seats in the Diamond View Dugout, Tower View Tables, Legacy Club and Gilt-Edge Club. Those seats, which include parking, food and beverage, are believed to cost $15,000 to $20,000 per seat, per season — or roughly $183 to $244 per seat.
The minor league ballpark this offseason is being upgraded to accommodate Major League Baseball, and includes a new home clubhouse beyond the left field wall, an upgraded visiting clubhouse, renovated dugouts, new batting cages and weight rooms and updates to the scoreboard and lighting.
Purchasing non-premium season tickets does not require a three-year commitment, as the premium tickets did, but they will automatically get renewed each year unless canceled. And the A’s are not guaranteed to host postseason games at Sutter Health Park should they make the playoffs.
Ticket buyers have been told “jewel events,” such as playoff games or All-Star games, are not guaranteed to occur in West Sacramento because of Major League Baseball’s stadium requirements for premium events. Those requirements could include added spaces for national and international media, news conferences and television trucks. However, ticket holders will have priority access to playoff games if they are held at a different venue.
The A’s will play in the 24-year-old ballpark built to house the Triple-A River Cats for the next three seasons with an option for a fourth, depending on the construction timeline for their planned new stadium on the Las Vegas strip. They hope to open the 33,000-seat, $1.75-billion domed stadium in 2028.
The team last week received approval by the Las Vegas Stadium Authority on the 30-year lease, non-relocation and development documents needed to begin construction on the site of the recently demolished Tropicana resort. It was believed to be a significant step toward construction beginning in 2025.
The team, for at least this season, will share the ballpark with the River Cats, meaning there will be 157 regular-season baseball games played there. There were initial plans made over the summer to install an artificial surface for wear and tear, but the league and the MLB Players Association changed course in October and determined natural grass would be better amid summer months that often bake the capital region in triple-digit temperatures.
The A’s made a rare free-agent splash last week by signing starting pitcher Luis Severino to a three-year, $67 million contract, the largest guaranteed payout in team history.
It was $1 million more than the team gave its former Gold Glove third baseman, Eric Chavez, when he signed a six-year, $66 million contract in 2004. The team’s lack of spending during its time in Oakland was a point of contention with fans. The team spent 57 seasons in Oakland before new stadium negotiations at Howard Terminal near Jack London Square stalled and the team decided to play in Sacramento before the planned move to Las Vegas.
The A’s will be trying to make the playoffs for the first time since the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. They have gone 265-383 since.
This story was originally published December 9, 2024 at 12:30 PM.
