The Athletics will spend the next three seasons playing at a minor league ballpark in West Sacramento before their planned move to Las Vegas for the 2028 season.

The team announced Thursday that it would play at Sutter Health Park -- the home of the Sacramento River Cats, the San Francisco Giants' Triple-A affiliate -- for the 2025 to 2027 seasons. The agreement includes an option year to play in Sacramento in 2028, should their new stadium in Las Vegas not be ready by then.

The Athletics appear close to cutting ties with Oakland after 56 years and making a minor league ballpark in West Sacramento their interim home.

The A's are expected to make Las Vegas their home for the 2028 season.

The team met with Sacramento officials Wednesday.

According to a report by radio personality Dave Weiglein of Sactown Sports, the team will announce its decision to relocate either Thursday or Friday.

The A's will share Sutter Health Park with the San Francisco Giants' Triple-A team, the RiverCats, for up to three seasons beginning next season. 

The Oakland Athletics met with officials from Oakland and Alameda County on Tuesday to discuss the city's most recent offer to keep team, bound for Las Vegas, in the Coliseum at least through the 2027 season.

The negotiations did not produce a resolution, and the A's are expected to meet with Sacramento officials Wednesday to hear their proposal to be the team's home for a minimum of three seasons beginning next year.

"Oakland made a fair and reasonable offer to the A's," Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said in a statement. "We await their response and look forward to continuing discussions as necessary."

The Athletics claimed infielder Tyler Nevin, a son of former Los Angeles Angels manager Phil Nevin, off waivers from the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday.

Nevin, 26, has a .203 batting average with five home runs and 29 RBIs in 105 at-bats over three seasons with the Orioles and Detroit Tigers. He was reacquired by the Orioles in January from Detroit, then designated him for assignment Thursday.

The city of Oakland will present Athletics ownership with an offer to extend the team's lease that includes a five-year contract with an opt-out after three years, as well as a requirement the team pays a $97 million "extension fee," according to document obtained by ESPN and KGO in San Francisco.

The team and the city will meet on Tuesday, the third formal meeting between the two sides since the Athletics received unanimous approval from major-league owners to move the franchise to Las Vegas.

Thousands of Athletics fans gathered in the Coliseum's south parking lot before Thursday night's Opening Day game against the Cleveland Guardians to try out a new way of displaying their displeasure with the team's ownership: showing up but staying away.

In what might be the beginning of the team's final season in Oakland, fans waved hundreds of "SELL" flags, ate free tacos and listened to live music. What most of them didn't do was enter the stadium to watch the game, choosing to continue the party through the night by watching the game on a blowup projection screen. The announced crowd for the game -- 13,522.

Joe Boyle will begin the 2024 season in the starting rotation for the Oakland Athletics.

The right-hander will be the club's fifth starter behind Alex Wood, Ross Stripling, Paul Blackburn and JP Sears.

Boyle, 24, was a fifth-round pick by the Cincinnati Reds in the 2020 draft and made his big league debut with the A's last September.

Third baseman J.D. Davis has agreed to a one-year contract with the Oakland Athletics just days after he was released by the San Francisco Giants.

According to multiple reports, Davis will earn $2.5 million and can make an additional $1 million in performance bonuses.

The Oakland Athletics and their design teams released renderings Tuesday of the club's planned $1.5 billion stadium in Las Vegas that show five overlapping layers with a similar look to the famous Sydney Opera House.

The A's hope to move into that 33,000-seat domed stadium in 2028, depending mostly on the construction timeline. A glass window beyond the outfield provides an outdoor feel with views of the Las Vegas Strip.

Josh Donaldson, who won the American League MVP during a 13-year career, announced his retirement Monday.

Donaldson, 38, made the announcement on the podcast of former player Sean Casey.

Donaldson finishes his career with 279 home runs, 1,310 hits and a long-earned reputation as a someone who competed with an edge, unafraid of offending opponents. He had his best season in 2015 with Toronto, when he hit 41 homers and drove in a league-high 123 runs, while scoring an MLB-high 122 runs. Donaldson received 23 of 30 first-place votes for the MVP, finishing ahead of Mike Trout for the award.