Matters are quickly going from bad to worse for the Oakland Athletics.
With the team once again trading off any player approaching stardom, Oakland opened the 2023 season with the lowest payroll in MLB by a wide margin at just a hair over $43 million ? nearly $120 million lower than the league average.
The Athletics opened the 2023 season with a six-game home stand that showed just how much in revolt that their fanbase is. On opening day, a 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels, drew just 14,638 to the decrepit RingCentral Coliseum, and attendance has plummeted from there.
On Tuesday night, the announced attendance for a 4-3 win over the visiting Cleveland Guardians was just 3,407. That attendance figure was eclipsed by 11 of the 13 Triple-A ballclubs to play on the day, with four of those clubs more than doubling the Athletics' paid attendance figure.
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