The Angels are being sold — a deal was agreed in September 2026 and is expected to close in early 2027. Before the next stadium decision gets made in a boardroom, we want Long Beach on the list. This is our case for why.
This isn't about Anaheim doing anything wrong. It's about what a new owner sees when they look at the map of Southern California and ask where a ballpark could do the most good.
The city controls roughly 43 acres of undeveloped land surrounding the Queen Mary — land it has spent a decade trying to figure out how to redevelop. It sits at the literal end of I-710. This isn't a hypothetical site; it's a known parcel the city already wants a plan for.
The Metro A Line already connects Long Beach directly to downtown LA, and the 405, 710, and 605 freeways converge here. A stadium doesn't need to be built around a car-only commute.
The City Council voted unanimously in 2025 to bring professional baseball back to Blair Field under Mayor Rex Richardson's "Grow Long Beach" initiative. The Long Beach Coast sold out their first home game there in June 2026, drawing 3,108. The appetite and the political will for baseball in this city aren't things we'd have to create — they already exist.
Long Beach is in the middle of "Elevate '28" — a $1 billion-plus infrastructure plan built to host 11 Olympic and 7 Paralympic sports in 2028, more events than any city outside LA proper. That money isn't earmarked for a ballpark, and we're not pretending otherwise. What it proves is that this city can execute large, complex venue projects on a hard deadline — and that its leadership is actively looking for what comes after the Games. The Olympics wrap in August 2028. The Angels' lease question has to be answered by 2029. That's not a coincidence we should ignore.
Nothing here is speculative. This is the public record of how we got to a new owner — and the window that's now open.
Moreno first put the Angels on the market in 2022, retained a sale advisor, then abandoned the process the following year.
Kroenke Sports & Entertainment reached a definitive agreement to buy a controlling interest in the Angels, in a deal reported at roughly $4 billion — an MLB record, past the $3.9 billion Padres sale.
Once approved by league owners, KSE takes over as controlling owner — and every stadium and market question becomes theirs to answer.
This is the real decision point, not the year a new stadium would open. Any conversation about a new home has to happen well before it — which means the conversation starts now.
Recent MLB ballparks have taken roughly 2–3 years to build once a site, funding, and approvals are locked — and years of planning before that. We'd rather be straight about that now than promise a date we can't hit.
We're building a public, visible list of people who want Long Beach considered as the Angels look at their future. This goes to local media and, in time, to the people making the decision.
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press@lbhalos.comNo decision has been made. The team is contractually committed to Anaheim through 2029. This campaign exists to make the case for Long Beach well before that window closes — not to announce anything that's already decided.
No. LBHalos.com is an independent, fan-run campaign. We aren't affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for the Angels, MLB, Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, or the City of Long Beach.
Franchise relocations are rare and hard — we're not pretending otherwise. Even in the best case, a new stadium likely wouldn't open until the early 2030s; we'd rather say that plainly than oversell a timeline. But ownership changes are exactly when these conversations happen, and cities that don't raise their hand don't get considered. This is us raising ours.
We're not trying to take anything away from Anaheim's fans. If the team stays, that's a legitimate outcome too. We just think Long Beach deserves to be part of the conversation, not left out of it by default.
Share the campaign locally, reach out to your City Council office, and if you're connected to local media or business groups, put us in touch. Grassroots visibility is what makes a case like this credible.