Oakland Athletics

  USA - and break Jose Canseco's Oakland record for most strikeouts before an All-Star break (104 in 1986). The universal response from the A's brass: whatever. ...

  USA - The A's already put players on the DL 17 times after tying an Oakland record by using it 22 times last season. Briefly: Carlos Gonzalez exited in the sixth ...

By Nico You have to pay $126,000,000 to find a bigger loser than Joe Blanton. Blanton, who keeps setting Oakland A's records for "fastest to x losses!" tries to earn his 5th win instead of his 12th loss. He is opposed by crafty left-hander Mark Buehrle, whose six June starts produced a 4-0 record, 1.60...

By The Wizard Mark Ellis - 2B, Orlando Cabrera - SS. Ryan Sweeney - RF, AJ Pierzynski - C. Kurt Suzuki - C, Carlos Quentin - LF. Emil Brown - LF, Jermaine Dye - RF. Jack Cust - DH, Jim Thome - DH. Wes Bankston - 1B, Joe Crede - 3B ...

  USA - 16 game between the A's and White Sox at the Coliseum, initially slated to be played at night, is now a 12:55 pm start because it'll be televised by FOX.

By Nathaniel Stoltz A number of former A’s position prospects have migrated to other MLB organizations over the past few years, achieving varying levels of success. In the latest edition of "By the Numbers," a regular feature on OaklandClubhouse where Nathaniel Stoltz examines aspects of the Oakland A’s o...

By Al Rick] Peterson was working as the A's pitching coach at the time. Just before the draft, Oakland GM Billy Beane gave Peterson videotapes of some 20 pitchers the A's were considering as draft picks and told him to break down each ...

 CA - Jul 3, 2008 Inoa's talent is this: Billy Beane flew to the Dominican Republic three times in the past two months to see him, once dragging along the A's co-owners. ...

A's ink top prospect Inoa with record signing bonus - Sports Network

A's agree to terms with Dominican prospect Inoa - New York Times

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By Melissa Lockard Shortly after announcing the signing of Michael Inoa to the press in the Dominican Republic, the Oakland A's front office hosted a phone press conference to discuss the A's big signing. We have quotes from that press conference with A's GM Billy Beane, A's Director of Latin American Opera...

 - Jul 2, 2008 Oakland, CA (Sports Network) - The Oakland Athletics signed 16-year-old pitcher Michael Inoa of the Dominican Republic to a minor league contract Wednesday ...

A's agree to terms with Dominican prospect Inoa - New York Times

A's give $4.25M bonus to Dominican righty Inoa, 16 - CBS Sportsline

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 - Jul 1, 2008 Ellis gave Oakland the one-run advantage in the top of the frame with a solo homer, but A's reliever Alan Embree (1-3) failed to hold the lead. ...

 - Anaheim, CA (Sports Network) - Greg Smith threw his second complete game of the year as the Oakland Athletics opened a three-game set against the LA Angels ...

A's beat Angels 6 - 1, trail by 3{ games in AL West - New York Times

A's beat Angels 6-1, trail by 3 1/2 games in AL West - My Freeze

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By Blez All in all, this is a great win and sets the A's up for the rest of this series.  Even though the A's have Harden going tomorrow, the Angels are putting A's killer Ervin Santana out on the hill, so you have to figure the A's will struggle to score runs.  Santana just owns our A's.  But it's most defin...

By Blez The A's are now up 5-1 in the top of the eighth.  Daric Barton, Greg Smith, Ryan Sweeney and Eric Chavez are huge.  Totally. LET'S GO A'S!!!!!

By Blez Starting pitching standouts:  Rich Harden, Justin Duchscherer, Dana Eveland, Greg Smith So there you have it.  My first half grades for our Oakland Athletics in 2008.  What grades would you give and why?  Who has been a disppointment so far and who has been a standout?

 - Jun 29, 2008 Jonathan Sanchez (8-4) notched the win by limiting Oakland to one run on four hits in seven innings. He struck out six and walked one en route to his sixth ...

By Taj Adib All that said, Chad Gaudin is most definitely a better pitcher at this time and should be starting for this team. However, Blanton's trade value is negative at this point, and it seems like the Duke and Harden are fairly healthy and keeping the team competitive. So what are the A's to do? Switc...

By Taj Adib It seems like a long time since I've managed a Game Thread on a day when Joe Blanton is pitching. I kind of miss Kentucky Joe and I was ecstatic when he finally looked like the Blanton of old his last time out against the Phillies. There's no doubt that Joe Blanton's year has been a microcosm of the...

By Melissa Lockard In this edition of Oakland A’s Minor League Notebook, we check-in with A’s Director of Player Development Keith Lieppman for some injury updates on a number of A’s prospects. We also review the roster moves throughout the organization on Wednesday, announce a retirement, update the mos...

By Tom Fornelli Filed under: Boston, Oakland, Red Sox, Athletics, MLB BizRemember all those moons ago when the baseball season kicked off in Japan? The Red Sox and Athletics played that two game series a week before the regular season started for everybody else, the Japanese crowds loved it, and the bas...

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 Melissa Lockard In the 2008 draft, the Oakland A’s selected a number of players with strong baseball lineages. One such pick was Ryan Doolittle, the A’s 26th round selection, who is the younger brother of Oakland’s 2007 supplemental first round pick, Sean Doolittle. Ryan, a pitcher, was thrilled to be sel...

By Melissa Lockard Like many of the Oakland A’s top prospects, Jared Lansford experienced a lost season in 2007. Limited by a mysterious arm injury, Lansford made only one start in 2007. Now healthy, Lansford has transformed himself from a starter into one of the Stockton Ports’ best relievers. We spoke to Lan...

By Blez Frank Thomas:  Even though I said that signing Frank might've been a mistake, I gotta admit that I love seeing rebar man waiting in the on deck circle.  2006 was such a fun season as an A's fan and Thomas feels like he should've always been an A. I love you, 2008 Oakland A's.

By Melissa Lockard Sean Doolittle’s assault on minor league pitching began during the Oakland A’s Instructional League this fall, when he earned the A’s MVP award. His bat hasn’t slowed since. He recently was named to the Cal League All-Star team. He also had the joy of learning that his brother would be joinin...

By andrew Biggest Outliers (Win Shares Above Baseline - Oakland) Justin Duchscherer and Jack Cust have 4 WSAB Frank Thomas and Rich Harden have 3 WSAB Donnie Murphy, Rajai Davis, Travis Buck, Lenny Dinardo and Fernando Hernandez each have (-1) WSAB

By Taj Adib Eric Chavez must really love his Father! Chavvy had 3 hits and 2 RBIs to lead a balanced A's offensive attack to a 5-3 series-sweeping win. In fairness, virtually the entire A's lineup was ready to explode early and often in this game, as they routinely rocketed deep fly balls that died in the...

By Nico On a team like the Tigers or Indians, Yankees or Red Sox, Brewers, Braves, or Cardinals, Blanton could be an outstanding performer, winning the games he is consistently losing for Oakland and greatly improving his team's rotation - and we have seen, up close and personal, how important s...

By Melissa Lockard Wednesday proved to be a perfect day on the Oakland A's schedule. Not only did the big league club earn a win over the New York Yankees, but all four of the team's full-season affiliates found themselves in the win column. For one A's affiliate, it was an extra-special win. We have the details on...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Chris Bootcheck isn't really a major league pitcher, but he can impersonate one for one or two batters once in a while. I understand he gave up a grand slam in today's game, something I missed, I suppose you could say mercifully, because KCOP decided to drop the feed at that precise moment. No m...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Jon Garland had unquestionably his best game in an Angels uniform, striking out eight; he's only fanned eight or more four times in his career prior to tonight, and the last time was on August 30, 2003 against the Tigers in Detroit, a godawful team that ended the day 37 games out of first plac...

By Melissa Lockard With their first pick on Day Two of the 2008 draft, the Oakland A’s selected Pepperdine right-hander Brett Hunter. Some draft experts pointed to that pick as one of the potential steals of the draft, as Hunter was, at one time, considered a first-round pick before an injury this season drop...

By Melissa Lockard The Oakland A’s are an organization that values players who come from baseball bloodlines, and 8th round pick Jeremy Barfield fits the bill. He has been surrounded by major league baseball his entire life. His father is Jesse Barfield, who hit 241 homeruns. His brother is Josh Barfield, who...

By baseballgirl I say that with complete understanding of the frustration that Mariners' fans are feeling about their season to date, and I imagine it's the same for the fans of Detroit, who have had to watch maybe the best lineup in baseball struggle game after game after game through the first sixty.

By Blez The game looked grim to me going in.  Rogers was so dominant at the Coliseum.  Harden had been hit hard by several Tigers in the past.  But Harden was simply amazing.  He worked in a lot more splitters than I've seen him use in quite a while.  He worked it effectively, racking up nine strikeouts.  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.

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By Melissa Lockard This off-season, the Oakland A’s dealt super-sub Marco Scutaro to the Toronto Blue Jays for a pair of minor league pitchers. Scutaro returns to Oakland with Toronto for the first time this week. Meanwhile, the two pitchers involved in the trade are with High-A Stockton. We caught-up with on...

By Melissa Lockard The Oakland A’s return home today after a rough roadtrip that saw the team drop seven of nine games and fall 1.5 back of the division-leading Angels. There were a few injuries during the trip. Two aren’t expected to be serious, while the other might be season-ending. Fortunately for Oakland, t...

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 Melissa Lockard Although the MLB draft is about selecting players who will contribute to the big league club years down the road, an organization often takes into account its overall strengths and weaknesses when making a first-round selection. In this two-part series, we take a look at the strengths an...

By noreply@blogger.com (Marine Layer) In November 2005, Gwen Knapp wrote what many called a tongue-in-cheek article about the A's trading Barry Zito to the Giants for the territorial rights to San Jose. How ironic it must be now that the Giants, facing dwindling attendance and sizable debt loads (one of which is Zito), may very...

By noreply@blogger.com (Marine Layer) What we have right now is a waiting game. The A's are waiting out the EIR process in Fremont. They're waiting out the end of their CSNBA contract to make a move on their own. The NBA and the Maloofs are waiting out this new arena in Sin City and political dealings in Sacramento to determine the King...

By R.J. Anderson So much for rebuilding, the Oakland Athletics weren’t supposed to be competing this year, but a month into the season they sit in second place behind some stellar pitching. Did Billy Beane pull a fast one on the masses with the trades, or are they simply streaking up early before fading back...

By Rob This kind of mayhem is pretty damned unusual. In fact, the A's have not beaten the Angels by 12 or more runs since an 18-2 shellacking at Anaheim Stadium on June 27, 1996 that included a very functional Jason Giambi, pre-Cardinals Mark McGwire, Scott Brosius before the Yankees polluted him...

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 Marine Layer The A's experienced an 11% jump, from $292 million to $323 million. They continue to ride the revenue sharing gravy train, as local revenue pales in comparison to most of their brethren. The welfare check should only become bigger next season as early attendance figures from the first two w...

By Marine Layer Take a look at the chart below. I've mostly included other markets with two baseball teams, because they're the only ones with similar scheduling dynamics. In LA, there are two full-fledged channels with exclusivity agreements for the three major teams there, leaving the lesser teams to...

By Marine Layer Opposition has to come from somewhere, and its most consistent form appears to be former Fremont mayor Gus Morrison, who wrote a letter to the Fremont City Council criticizing the A's Community Specific Plan. In this round he assesses the A's parking plan as inadequate, citing the A's as h...

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.

  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 ...