Oakland Is Getting a New Minor League Team—the Oakland B’s

Oakland Athletics fans in right field yell behind signs protesting the team's potential move to Las Vegas and to call for management to sell the team during the fifth inning of a baseball game between the Athletics and the San Francisco Giants in Oakland, Calif., on Aug. 5, 2023. Jeff Chiu/AP Photo

OAKLAND, Calif.—They will call themselves the Oakland B’s, short for Ballers.

The minor league B’s will carry on the city’s green-and-gold color scheme. Otherwise, they don’t plan to be anything like the A’s, whose heartbroken fans they hope to support through the team’s painful departure for Las Vegas.