{"id":624145,"date":"2026-04-23T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624145\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:31:18","slug":"vancouver-seeking-owners-to-bid-on-mlb-expansion-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624145\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver seeking owners to bid on MLB expansion team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has taken one small step closer to being considered for a Major League Baseball expansion team.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver city council approved on Wednesday a measure that would &#8220;identify and evaluate&#8221; potential owners to bid for the right to seek an MLB expansion franchise for the city.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/council.vancouver.ca\/20260422\/documents\/cfscmotion5.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">council member&#8217;s motion<\/a> by Mayor Ken Sim that would begin the process of finding qualified owners, called an &#8220;Expression of Interest,&#8221; was approved by Vancouver city council. <\/p>\n<p>According to a CBC report, Sim called adding an expansion team a &#8220;once-in-a-generation opportunity&#8221; and &#8220;a home run&#8221; for the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to assure everyone that this motion did not come out of left field,&#8221; Sim said at council, according to the CBC. &#8220;Our office has been approached by serious proponents regarding a potential bid for the MLB.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that public funds would not be used for the franchise or the potential franchise&#8217;s stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The high-A Vancouver Canadians, a Toronto Blue Jays affiliate in the Northwest League, play at Rogers Field at Nat Bailey Stadium, which has a capacity of 6,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada has taken one small step closer to being considered for a Major League Baseball expansion team. Vancouver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-624145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624145","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=624145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}