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Trade Deadline Preview: Oakland Athletics
Billy Beane learned a difficult lesson in 2014, which means only one thing. This year he and the Oakland Athletics will be even more difficult to predict between now and the July 31 trade deadline....
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Three Potential Trades for the Oakland A’s
It’s nearly impossible to tell what Athletics GM Billy Beane is going to do at the trade deadline. Instead, here are three moves he could make. I’ve already established that we still don’t know what...
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First trade domino falls: A’s trade Kazmir to Houston
Most saw this coming, many had hoped for a surprise from Oakland Athletics’ general manager Billy Beane and few thought he wouldn’t make a move when it came to A’s starter Scott Kazmir. However, Beane...
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Athletics quiet as deadline passes, rebuild farm system
All stayed quiet on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay as the 2015 Major League Baseball Trade Deadline came and went. I recently wrote that it is virtually impossible to predict the moves that...
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A’s deadline trades already paying off
The Oakland Athletics are very likely out of the postseason race this season. For the first time in the last three years their season will end in September and not the – well – beginning of October....
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Valencia making most of new chance in Oakland
Danny Valencia hits a walk-off single in his 4th game for the A’s. Getty Images. It’s a baffling thought to most of baseball but especially to a team like the Oakland Athletics to have a lineup so good...
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Craziness continues in Game 1 of the 2015 World Series
Royals walk-off in the 14th inning to take Game 1 of the World Series You can’t say that this hasn’t been a strange postseason. From New York Mets’ David Murphy‘s six home runs in six straight games to...
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A’s prospect Sean Manaea’s path to the big leagues (almost) complete
Left-handed pitcher Sean Manaea‘s road to playing in the Oakland Athletics’ organization as well as this year’s Arizona Fall League All-Star game on Saturday had been long and painful. Yet he’s made it...
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Free agent OF Jason Heyward chooses the Chicago Cubs
Heyward chooses Cubs, snubs Cardinals Outfielder Jason Heyward, the most important position player on the free agent market, has been signed by the Chicago Cubs. He chose not to return to the St. Louis...
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Top prospect Sean Manaea impressive in first start for Athletics
One of the only discernible truths surrounding the Oakland Athletics right now, as you may or may not have noticed things can change dramatically from minute to minute under this club’s current...
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The A’s needed a fifth starter and it’s Sean Manaea
A’s new fifth starter: Sean Manaea?! The Oakland Athletics had a choice to make. They had options for who would be their fifth starter this week and it’s not the more obvious of choices. It’s...
View ArticleA’s, Royals exchange OF Billy Burns for OF Brett Eibner
In a surprise early-deadline move, the Oakland A’s and the Kansas City Royals swapped a pair of outfielders on Saturday. The Athletics sent 26-year-old Billy Burns to the Royals for 27-year-old Brett...
View ArticleRemembering Tony Phillips, MLB’s first super-ultlity player
On this day in 1959, before the term had even been coined in reference to versatile defenders like Ben Zobrist, Major League Baseball’s first real “super utility” player was born in Atlanta. His name...
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