BY JACK PARODI

The best stadium in baseball will don a new name this year: Oracle Park.

The San Francisco Giants renamed AT&T Park to Oracle Park Thursday morning and assured all sign changes will be ready for Opening Day April 5.

With the Warriors moving just down the Embarcadero into the Chase Center next season, it’s sensible Oracle, a Bay Area company, took the opportunity to invest in the sixth-most-valued MLB team ($2.85 billion net worth) in the Giants after Golden State ($3.1 billion net worth) bids adieu to Oracle Arena after 14 seasons.

The deal with Oracle and the Giants is expected to be in the $300 million to $350 million range — a significant raise to the $100 million Larry Baer and Co. were receiving from AT&T.

From Pac-Bell (2000-’03), to SBC (’04-’05), to the beloved AT&T Park (’06-’18), the most beautiful stadium in the Majors has seen a great ordeal.

For starters, Barry Bonds broke in this masterpiece of a place by hitting 72 home runs in a season and breaking Hank Aaron’s career home run record. His towering splash hits and dominance in the early-to-mid 2000s will forever reign glory in the history of this stadium.

In the second season of AT&T’s ownership (2007), the Giants hosted the MLB All-Star festivities — during which I was lucky enough to witness Vladimir Guerrero take down Alex Rios in the Home Run Derby. It was an unreal experience attending that thing.

That same year, Giants fans were introduced to a slim, sub-6-foot pitcher: Tim Lincecum. “The Freak” continued to keep AT&T Park an electric baseball atmosphere, as his high leg kick and a high-90s fastball paired with a devastating, knee-buckling curveball earned him two straight Cy Young Awards in 2008 and 2009.

And then just one year later, for the first time since moving to the Bay, San Francisco won a World Series. Thus started a dominant five-year stretch, during which soon-to-be Giant legends in Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner (not to mention Pablo Sandoval in 2012) formed a dynasty, winning the World Series in 2010, 2012 and 2014.

The Giants haven’t fared too well since losing to the eventual World Series champion Cubs in the 2016 NLDS, as they had the second-worst record in baseball in 2017 and finished fourth in the NL West the year after. Long-time President of Baseball Operations Brian Sabean was let go, and a new era of Giants baseball officially began.

It’s hard to tell the direction this team is headed right now, as it seems Farhan Zaidi can’t make up his mind on whether to sell (trading Bumgarner, Posey and Co.) or pick up some pieces to try and compete once again — to give this San Francisco fanbase something its grown somewhat accustomed to now following so many brutal seasons.

Regardless of where Zaidi wants to take this team, we just hope Oracle Park can bring us memories like Travis Ishikawa’s walk-off home run to send the Giants to the World Series in 2014; and when fans chanted “U—Ribe!” in the exit tunnels following a Juan Uribe walk-off to beat the Phillies in the 2010 NLCS. Those are just a couple of countless moments I have with AT&T Park that will stick with me forever.

So here’s to a Oracle Park. And here’s to a hopeful, new era of Giants baseball.