Players offer preview of Sutter Health Park, new Athletics temporary home NBC Sports Bay Area & California [Video]

A mix of Athletics and San Francisco Giants players have experience playing at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento.

While acknowledging the odd, heart-aching circumstances that will leave the Oakland Coliseum without an MLB team, members of both franchises know baseball will be played in California’s capital city.

However, that’s not to say there isn’t much uncertainty regarding the condition of Sutter Health Park and its ability to host a major-league team.

“They definitely need a lot of upgrades to the clubhouse and cages, and all that stuff,” A’s second baseman Zack Gelof told CBS Sacramento’s Jake Gadon on Friday. “I’d say it was a below-average Triple-A [ballpark], and I’m sure they’ll take care of it, I guess, by next year.”

Gelof, when visiting as a member of the A’s Triple-A team, the Las Vegas Aviators, wasn’t impressed by Sutter Health Park. 

His concerns are illustrated by the stadium’s design. Sutter Health Park offers smaller dimensions and holds only 14,000 compared to the …