“We did surveys of locals in Las Vegas to see how many baseball fans there were.” There are quite a few (comparable) facilities to look at,” Aguero said in an interview about how he arrived at those numbers. At the start of the year, the location was just one of several identified by the A’s as candidates for a land purchase, according to Jeremy Aguero, an economist for Las Vegas-based firm Applied Analysis, hired in January to help with a stadium-financing plan.Īguero’s work is concentrated in Las Vegas, and although he says Oakland still appeared to be in play when he came aboard, the big draw to Vegas is obvious: Up to 30% of those attending A’s games there would be out-of-towners, and half would make the trip just to watch the visiting team, per his findings.
