Jamie Arnold can't wait for the A's future. Triple-A Vegas is another story.

PHILADELPHIA — Don’t get Jamie Arnold wrong. He'd love to be promoted by the Athletics to Triple-A – if not the big leagues – this season. But Midland, Texas has never looked so beautiful.

Arnold, the A’s top pitching prospect who was drafted in the first round last season, paid particularly close attention to the A’s recent Las Vegas series against the Milwaukee Brewers and Colorado Rockies at their Triple-A ballpark in Summerlin, Nevada.And like every other pitcher in the A’s organization, he cringed.Six games.

102 runs – 55 runs given up by the A’s staff. 32 runs scored in one game. 20 home runs.

No A’s starter lasted longer than 5⅔ innings.Yep, so pardon the A’s pitching prospects for not jumping up and down with a promotion to Triple-A Las Vegas. They'd prefer to go directly to the Triple-A ballpark in Sacramento, the one where they temporarily play their big-league games, and wait to pitch in Vegas for the first time in 2028 when their new ballpark opens on the Vegas Strip."

I mean, I heard how the PCL is as a whole and how Vegas in general," Arnold told USA TODAY Sports on Sunday before the Futures Game. "But seeing the games there really solidified it for me. The ball flies.

I mean, that’s not normal for the big leagues, 19-13, whatever, that was pretty crazy."You had to be there to believe it with Brewers manager Pat Murphy still calling it the craziest environment he ever experienced in his college, minor league and major league career."It’s just a tough environment," A’s manager Mark Kotsay said after the six-game series ended in June.

"There’s no other way to explain this. As a pitcher, you go out there and you compete. It’s not easy from a confidence standpoint when you’re on the mound and playing in these elements."

Well, the good news is that when the A’s move into their new Las Vegas home, the elevation is nearly 1,000 feet less on the Strip than in Summerlin, and there will be a baseball humidor, just like the ones used at Coors Field in Denver and at C