Right now, excluding Florida, the southeast only has one baseball team: the Atlanta Braves. Completing our objective to bring Major League Baseball to Nashville will be a long process," said John Loar, managing director for Music City Baseball. It's a valid question since nearly 12,000 people attended the Nashville Sounds game Sunday afternoon against the Texas Rangers. "Through a series of private offerings, Music City Baseball initially intends to raise more than $4.5 million to cover operating expenses for the next three years," the group posted on its website. Nashville is growing at a rapid pace and it’s not unreasonable to think that years down the line when the city is much bigger, that it could support yet another major league team.
"Mayor Cooper welcomes any and all ideas to be presented to the city. "In late August, Music City Baseball announced that the team will be named the Nashville Stars, a name used by Negro League teams here, and said it has formed a partnership with the Negro League Baseball Museum.The website offers further information on Music City Baseball LLC's plan to bring an expansion franchise to Nashville or have an existing franchise relocate here, including a timetable. The decision to expand, and the process of selecting expansion cities typically takes many years.“There is currently no expansion process in place,” Pat Courtney, chief communications officer for MLB, said Wednesday by email in response to questions about future expansion and the possibility of a franchise coming to Nashville.“We also will have to make the case to the people of Nashville, and city and state officials, that a baseball franchise is going to enhance the reputation of the city and it’s going to benefit the citizens of Nashville either directly or indirectly. Its not a growing sport but the south only has one team in the Braves and Nashville could end up sucking up a lot of fans around the south and then add in that tourists would love to go to a … "Many stadiums today are part of mixed-use environments and this is one possible option. While the prospect of moving a team to Nashville or expanding anytime soon seems unlikely given the bleak financial outlook across the country, Loar’s group is currently doing a feasibility study in their efforts to present a compelling case for a Nashville franchise.Loar started Music City Baseball in 2018 to draw attention to the need for an MLB franchise in Nashville. If we do get another team it will likely be an MLB team since there isn’t one in Tennessee at the moment. He used prosthetics to appear like an elderly man … “I think you can take a market connected to the South, and provide a clear message that you can take a step forward in this market.” “It’s up to us to put a package together and present to Major League Baseball why Nashville works.