Report: A's to lay off half of non-baseball ops staff

The A’s have informed "as many as 50% of their non-baseball operations staff" that they "will be out of work starting Oct. 31," with employees from ticket services, finance, stadium operations, marketing, sales, legal and community relations “especially affected,” according to sources. The move does "not come as a surprise,” with the A’s set to spend the next three or four years playing in West Sacramento. The Sacramento Kings own and operate Sutter Health Park, so their personnel will “absorb many of the duties that otherwise would have been duplicated.” Employees will receive a "month of severance pay for every year worked for the team, up to 12 months, along with matching COBRA benefits” (S.F. CHRONICLE, 7/19).