Max Schuemann said this week that he loved his time in Oakland, a city he hoped to reach as an Athletics rookie and a place he finally got to call home in 2024. He also played in the last game at the Coliseum, a detail that now sits at the center of his view of a franchise that has already shifted from one temporary stop to another.
That is why his name is back in focus now. The Yankees are spending this weekend in West Sacramento, Calif., and getting another taste of what the Athletics’ recent life has looked like after the club moved from Oakland and into Sutter Health Park. Schuemann spent the past two years with the team, so his perspective comes from inside the transition, not from a seat in the stands.
He was direct about what that stretch meant to him. Schuemann said it was always his goal, especially after the news that the team planned to leave Oakland, to debut as an Oakland A. He did that, then went on to play in the final game in the Coliseum, which he called really cool. In 2025, his home changed again, this time to Sacramento and Sutter Health Park, giving him a front-row view of a franchise trying to settle into a new routine while still carrying the weight of the old one.
Schuemann did not pretend the shift was ordinary. He called the move from Oakland to Sacramento an interesting transition and said he loved his time in Oakland even as the club kept moving away from the city. That is the part that gives his comments their force: the affection is real, but so is the sense that the Athletics were already living in between places, with another move ahead of them.
He also looked beyond the current stop. Schuemann said Vegas would be really cool for the players who end up there, and he described the whole period as an interesting little stretch for the organization. For now, though, the clearest measure of this moment is still the one he lived through himself: a rookie debut in Oakland, a final night at the Coliseum, and a team still moving toward whatever comes next.
