MLB Says Nuts To Modesto [Video]

Modesto’s team is gone after 2025.

Major League Baseball has struck again and will be abandoning the Modesto, California market after the 2025 season. The Modesto Nuts franchise, a business that was owned by the Seattle Mariners’ ownership group, will not exist because the Mariners’ ownership and Modesto elected officials could not come up with a deal that would have seen the city build a new stadium for the team. The Mariners ownership sold the franchise to a group called Diamond Baseball Holdings. The Modesto problem? Major League Baseball is in total control of Minor League Baseball and MLB wants all Minor League Baseball venues fixed up to whatever standards MLB wants. The 70-year-old stadium just did not cut it anymore. The stadium was renovated in 1997 when the city poured money into the ballpark to get it up to Major League Baseball standards. The cost to the city? Nearly four million dollars. Modesto has had …