{"id":604735,"date":"2026-04-15T02:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604735\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:29:11","slug":"vancouver-mayor-moves-to-launch-bid-for-major-league-baseball-expansion-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604735\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver mayor moves to launch bid for Major League Baseball expansion team"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vancouver’s mayor says he is bringing forward a motion in council that aims to bring a Major League Baseball franchise to the city, in light of the league recently broaching the subject of expansion. <\/p>\n

Ken Sim says in a statement the motion scheduled to come before council on April 22 will direct city staff to “launch an expression of interest process to identify a qualified ownership group” capable of advancing a bid. <\/p>\n

Sim says the process would need any interested ownership group “to demonstrate financial capacity, experience, and a clear plan to support a successful team,” but adds that Vancouver “has a strong sports culture and a proven track record of supporting professional teams.” <\/p>\n

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told Sportsnet during an interview in October another Canadian city in the league could work when asked about possibly adding a team in Vancouver. <\/p>\n

B.C. Place Stadium hosted several MLB exhibition series between 1984 and 1994 featuring the Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners and Montreal Expos. However, a $500-million renovation in 2011, including a centre-hung scoreboard and a cable-supported retractable roof, made the 54,000-seat stadium less suitable for baseball. <\/p>\n

No change can happen to the league’s alignment until this December, when the current collective bargaining agreement expires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-604735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}