Oakland Athletics

Oakland A's Instructs Q&A: Tyson Ross, RHP  CA - The former Cal right-hander and Oakland native overcame shoulder soreness in time to help the Stockton Ports win the Cal League championship. ...

  Canada - With a week to go until the trade deadline, they acquired Canadian starter Rich Harden from the A's. They believed he was the final piece to a championship ...

By Melissa Lockard After being selected in the second round in this year’s amateur draft, Tyson Ross had a whirlwind professional debut season. The former Cal right-hander and Oakland native overcame shoulder soreness in time to help the Stockton Ports win the Cal League championship. We caught-up with Ro...

By Blez Regardless, the Angels season is over and really, their great regular season means nothing when all is said and done because they ultimately only got two more home games than the A's did.  It will be interesting to see what happens with that team now.  What about Vlad's future?  What about Te...

 - Bill King, the late announcer for the Oakland A's, was the leader in 2005 and 2006, and Nuxhall led the fan voting last year. The Ford C. Frick Award has ...

KSTN to air all Cougars games press release), WI - The station is also home to University of Pacific Athletics, Oakland A's Baseball, Stockton Ports Baseball, Stockton Thunder Hockey and Stockton Lightning ...

By Taj Adib Both grover and Taj will be posting their Top-20 prospect lists later on in this posting, however there are a few news tidbits regarding the A's minor league system that should be addressed first: 19. RHP Andrew Carignan 8 Gio Gonzalez (9/19/1985) LHSP

 CA - Oct 5, 2008 Righties Huston Street, Brad Ziegler and Joey Devine should compete for the closer's job. Santiago Casilla and Andrew Brown are trade candidates, ...

Even so, the Tigers were a fine power-hitting team in 2006 when Blanton, then with the A's, blanked them over two relief innings in the American League ... Phillies fail to sweep away Brewers Gloucester County Times - NJ.com Sabathia proved nothing goes according to plan in October - MLB ESPN

CBC.ca  CA - For one, he reacted to his team's surprising first half by trading his two best pitchers — Rich Harden and Joe Blanton — in July and essentially calling off ... In major league baseball, 100 wins is the kiss of death The Republican - MassLive.com all 442 news articles

By Peter Schmuck Every team in the divisional round of the playoffs is either up 2-0 or down 0-2 right now, which means it's pretty likely that we already know what the two league championship series will look like. The odds are pretty heavy that the Red Sox open the ALCS at Tropicana Field and the Dodgers will...

By salb918 The only possibility that might make sense is to sign Giambi and play Cust in the outfield full-time.  Cust the DH versus Giambi the DH would be a wash in terms of production, so we'd have to compare Cust the LF to whoever's spot he's taking.  Travis Buck and Ryan Sweeney are almost locks to make...

By baseballgirl We saw a few of our players during the trip, including Dan Meyer, who made fun of Pam's "I Hella Heart Oakland Shirt", which everyone else (A's fan and Mariners' fan alike) seemed to love. We told Pam that she should have responded, "I hella heart your fastball", but I have a feeling that would...

  USA - Biggest surprise: Oakland's top hitter all season was rookie outfielder Ryan Sweeney, who didn't have a rough patch until the very end of the year. ... A's End 2008 Home Season with a Sweep Alameda Sun all 3 news articles

  USA - 09-29) 20:38 PDT -- Mark Ellis' recent shoulder surgery could result in the second baseman's return to Oakland. Ellis said Monday that he is concerned that ... Winter Of Discontent San Francisco Chronicle all 2 news articles

By Nico The A's have pieces to offer that should appeal to the Cardinals, from Huston Street to a young starting pitcher (be it Eveland, Braden, or - gasp - Mazzaro) to Bobby Crosby, who could thrive in the National League with a new organization, would be expendable if the A's signed Furcal, and wh...

By Taj Adib The team ended the season on a 5-game losing streak against two of their division rivals in the Rangers and Seattle. Josh Outman pitched well enough today, pounding the strike zone and flashing his upper-90s heater, however he also served up the hits and 4 runs and 1 walk. Outman ends the seas...

By notsellingjeans The other benefit to starting Pennington at second base is that he can also be the backup/emergency shortstop, reducing the need to carry a 6th infielder.  That frees the team to carry a "true" DH (like Giambi or Frank Thomas) and yet still have 12 pitchers on the roster, which might be neces...

By Taj Adib I guess the terminology thrown around in the Game Thread to describe the recent play of the Seattle Mariners was something along the lines of "comical suckitude." The term definitely applied to the Mariner bullpen today (or rather just Miguel "Poetista" Bautista) who blew a 3-1 Mariner l...

By Taj Adib Seattle Mariners @ Oakland Athletics 09/21/08 1:05 PM PDT Seattle MarinersOakland AthleticsIchiro Suzuki - RFTravis Buck - LFTug Hulett - SSCarlos Gonzalez - CFRaul Ibanez - LFRyan Sweeney - RFJose Lopez - 1BJack Cust - DHJeremy Reed - CFKurt Suzuki - CMiguel Cairo - 3BCliff Penningto...

By Blez SportsBlogs Nation is really fortunate as we have John Sickels writing the best minor league blog on the Web in Minor League Ball.  Sickels does excellent work at that blog and I suggest you make it part of your daily reading. Blez:  Finally, who would you rank as the A's best hitter in the syst...

By Taj Adib I am none too sure about this, but I've got to be believe that the A's are nearing some sort of all-time major league record for the number of left-handed starters used during a single-season. The club will try a new one today (lucky number 7 by my reckoning) in the form of Josh Outman. Josh, as yo...

By notsellingjeans Texas Rangers @ Oakland Athletics The A's are in their final homestand of the season.  This is your second-to-last weekend to catch them; the team's final home date is Sunday the 21st against Seattle.  Will you go to see them one last time in '09?

By Blez The A's actually outhit the Tigers 13-12 but A's pitching wound up giving up a lot of extra base hits as well as walking five batters and hitting three.  It's just one of those games where the A's offense actually showed up but the pitching wasn't in sync.  

By Taj Adib Travis Buck: Buck seems to finally be emerging from his season-long slump and was a key contributor to the RiverCats' PCL 1st round playoff series win this past week. If he can get some major league at-bats this month and regain the form that he showed at the major league level last season (.85...

By notsellingjeans D. Span rf0000000.308N. Punto ss0000000.293J. Mauer c0000000.317J. Morneau 1b0000000.308J. Kubel dh0000000.273D. Young lf0000000.282B. Harris 3b0000000.260A. Casilla 2b0000000.296C. Gomez cf0000000.253 Totals0000000   Oakland ABRHRBIBBKLOBSeason Avg R. Davis cf0000000.276B. Crosby ss0...

By Taj Adib 4. Goldstein also had a blurb about recently-signed minor league free agent Mike Benacka who is pitching for the Ports. Benacka dominated the independent Frontier League and the A's took a chance on him. A scout Kevin talked to mentioned that he pounds the strikezone with "funky, fringe stu...

By Taj Adib Chicago White Sox @ Oakland Athletics 08/17/08 1:05 PM PDT Chicago White SoxOakland AthleticsOrlando Cabrera - SSEric Patterson - 2BAJ Pierzynski - CKurt Suzuki - CCarlos Quentin - LFFrank Thomas - DHJermaine Dye - RFJack Cust - LFJim Thome - DHCarlos Gonzalez - CFPaul Konerko - 1BEmil...

By Nico SEAN GALLAGHER Don't let his recent woes scare you off, as what you saw was a 22 year old trying to pitch through pain. Gallagher remains one of the A's most exciting young pitchers, with a true "plus fastball" - remember, this is a guy Beane insisted on for months, a guy about whom Cubs fans sai...

By Blez Blez:  What do you think of the A's draft this year?  Blez:  How quickly do you think the A's rotation will turn over from what it is now to something more like Anderson, Cahill, Gonzalez, Rodriguez and Inoa?  Are we looking at when the team moves into the new ballpark in 2012 or sooner?

By Taj Adib I'm not sure that there was anything that could have made this game more reflective of how differing the A's and Angels' seasons have gone thus far and are going from here. In this last, thriller-of-a-game before the All Star Break, all the elements that have made the Angels one of the league...

By notsellingjeans With a ML contract, Inoa's team would have to use an option year on him immediately, and he'd have to stick in the major leagues for good by age 20 to avoid being exposed to the 29 other teams.  It's incredibly rare for a 20-year-old to be major-league ready; there are only two in the league righ...

By Taj Adib Debuts Galore! Team by team Notes Andrew Bailey was demoted to the bullpen to make room for Cahill & Anderson in the Midland rotation. He worked a scoreless inning of relief on Saturday. I like him in a bullpen role. He's got mid-90's heat... A's Prospects in the News

By Blez As for me, I've always loved watching those guys.  When Mike Myers was a free agent a couple of seasons ago, I'd hoped that the A's would sign him because he's so tough on lefties.  There's just something about having a pitcher who not only isn't likely to give up a multi-run home run, but is ofte...

By Taj Adib OF Travis Buck: Yeah, THAT Travis Buck. He's struggled at the major league level so far this season, but he's mashing at AAA Sacramento and with Ryan Sweeney performing well for the big club and Cargon improving, Buck might become expendable if another team is willing to overpay for him aft...

By notsellingjeans The names of those three relief pitchers - Foulke, Calero, and Embree - could be swapped into either deal, depending on the preference of the Tigers and Yankees, of course.  Clearly Calero is valued less than the other two. What all three have in common, though, is that they aren't a part of th...

By Blez Happy Memorial Day!!  What better to top off a sweep of the Red Sox than a visit with A's General Manager Billy Beane.  Coming Tomorrow:  Beane discusses Rich Harden, the A's lack of a consistent offense and the first base, left field, DH shuffle.

By Taj Adib In other game action today, the Halos are holding off the Dodgers 5-2 in the top of the 5th. Go Blue Crew! And Eric Chavez continues his rehab as we speak in Sacramento, and he lead-off the game for the Cats and blasted a solo homer. That's two doubles and a homer for Chavvy in the past three days. Hi...

By Taj Adib With the major league and minor league seasons well underway (giving the organization a framework for judgng needs and luxuries) and with amateur baseball seasons winding down (providing near-complete sample sizes to judge prospective draftees) let's take a look at where the A's sta...

By Taj Adib It was a spirited run there at the end and there were plenty of good things to take out of this game that will hopefully spill over into tomorrow's matchup against perennial A's assassin King Felix Hernandez. But, with just a strike or two more by JJ Putz in the 9th, and this game would have been...

By Blez Blez:  Do you expect Rich Harden and Joe Blanton to both be traded this season? Blez:  I know you have written a book about the Oakland Athletics that a lot of ANers have been looking forward to for a while.  Can you tell us about the book and when we might get a chance to see it?

By monkeyball Namely, what effect (if any) will the respective crises in the economy as a whole, the real estate sector, and the mortgage and credit sectors have on Wolff's plan for the ballpark village in Fremont? Much like the A's on-field prospects for 2008 looked to Beane two days ago.

By Blez Mychael Urban:  The biggest offseason need? How about some sort of guarantee that Eric Chavez, Bobby Crosby, Kiko Calero, Justin Duchscherer, Mark Kotsay, Travis Buck, Huston Street and Rich Harden will stay off the DL for a full season? Get that and you're in serious business.

By Ron Kroichick As the A's faltered in another attempt to shove aside the Mariners on Sunday, they tried a novel approach -- Joe Blanton literally shoved aside Ichiro Suzuki, right in front of Seattle's dugout. That move predictably angered the gentlemen dressed in...

The Oakland Athletics agreed to one-year contracts with outfielder Milton Bradley, infielder Marco Scutaro and right-hander Kiko Calero on Tuesday, avoiding arbitration for all three regulars.

The Texas Rangers baseball team on Friday apologized and paid an unspecified amount of money to a woman whose nose was broken during a fracas between players and fans at the Oakland Coliseum two years ago.

By Nico But Dave Stewart beat Clemens for the first of many times, and LaRussa's debut was a successful one to tune of 6-4 A's. If I'm a betting man, yes, I'd bet on Felix Hernandez to pitch a great game tonight. But let's not decide who's going to win, or whether the game will be 2-1 or 9-7, just yet. This is...

 CA - But the A's still have veteran issues. Can Frank Thomas stay healthy? The last few seasons indicate he can't. Maybe Oakland. will ...

  USA - The Oakland A's have announced that in order to help Frank Thomas maintain a reasonable playing weight, they will tarp off the top deck of the clubhouse ...

 - Jan 28, 2006 By Chris Shuttlesworth / MLB.com. OAKLAND -- To say A's fan Tracey Schneider looks forward to the team's annual FanFest would be an understatement. ...