Last Thursday baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced that the Major League Basketball will expand its facility at MLBAM's San Francisco office, located near the ballpark.
The league is intent on developing a second replay center in northern California.
In 2008, MLB opened the first replay center at the MLB Advanced Media's office in the Big Apple and expanded it in 2014.
"At some point you want to have redundancy, meaning if New York goes down, there's someplace else you can go," the 56-year-old commissioner said. "The proximity to the Silicon Valley for a technology company like MLB Advanced Media is very important, and it just makes sense in terms of the economics to do it where we have an existing facility."
He also added that a new replay room is already mapped out, but the opening date is yet to be finalized.
Manfred also spoke about the current situation in Oakland. He insisted that in the interests of baseball the ballpark must remain where it is. The A's owner Lew Wolff needs to have at least three-fourths of the owners to agree to his plan of having a stadium in San Jose.
"The fundamental goal is to help the A's get a new facility, which they desperately need, in Oakland," Manfred said. "It's a long process and it's a difficult process, but progress is being made. The A's preference is for the Coliseum site. I see a new facility that is really, really successful."
Manfred also said that Portland, Montreal and Charlotte "have all checked in recently" regarding potential expansion, a possibility that could come in the near future.
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