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The A’s are Proving Doubters Wrong
Posted on 6 Jul 2012 by Josh Muller.
It’s just over the halfway point in the season and the Oakland Athletics are one game under .500 entering a huge home series against the Mariners. With a series win, the A’s will have the same number of losses as they will wins; with a sweep, their victories will exceed their defeats. Either way, the A’s have proven that they are not a team to be overlooked. I’ve mentioned this before, ...
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Updating the A’s Prospects
Posted on 30 Jun 2012 by Josh Muller.
The A’s have been on a bit of a roller coaster the past week. After losing two out of three in an incredibly dramatic (and at times depressing) series with the cross town Giants, Oakland then took two out of three themselves in a decidedly less dramatic series with the Mariners. And they’ve now lost the first two of four in Arlington and sit (shocker) four games back of .500. They just can...
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Manny Not Being Manny In Oakland
Posted on 15 Jun 2012 by Josh Muller.
Well, it’s official. The Oakland Athletics announced they granted Manny Ramirez his unconditional release. Can’t say I’m too surprised by that one. Operation Mannyball: Failed. I really don’t think it’s that big of a deal. He just never really got going, only hitting 2 doubles and zero home runs in AAA Sacramento, a hitter-friendly environment. Apart from that, he can only DH, so he...
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Meet Sean Doolittle
Posted on 15 Jun 2012 by Josh Muller.
I know I said in a couple of weeks time, we’d have a better idea of where the A’s would be at the end of the year, and of course, during that time virtually nothing has changed. Oakland is still 8 games back of first, Yoenis Cespedes and Brandon McCarthy are out with what will hopefully be minor injuries, and the wins (and losses) are coming in bunches. The A’s took three out of four from...
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A’s Draft Trio of High Schoolers on Day One
Posted on 5 Jun 2012 by Josh Muller.
If there is one constant in the draft philosophy for the Oakland Athletics, it is the clear preference of college players to high school players. In fact, since 1997 the A’s have only drafted one high school player (Jeremy Bonderman) in the first round. Billy Beane, the A’s general manager, is famous for drafting the “safer” college talent to the more risk/reward nature that’s general...
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Just When We Start To Believe, The A’s Get REAL
Posted on 30 May 2012 by Josh Muller.
The Oakland Athletics announced Tuesday that they would not be calling Manny Ramirez up from AAA Sacramento on Wednesday, May 30. Wednesday is, of course, the first day he is eligible to return from his 50 game suspension for violating Major League Baseball’s drug policy, and is also his 40th birthday coincidentally. The thought process behind this non-move is that Manny’s swing is not quit...
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Bay Bridge Series Returns
Posted on 18 May 2012 by Josh Muller.
The Bay Bridge Series returns Friday night and the battle for East and West bay bragging rights follows it. This season, with the teams in virtually identical situations in their respective divisions, it seems the Oakland A’s and the San Francisco Giants have a bit more to play for than in recent years. This is one of my favorite series every year because (if it isn’t painfully obvious) I...
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A’s Off-Season Trades: Where Are They Now?
Posted on 16 May 2012 by Josh Muller.
Coming into the season, I had planned on doing frequent minor league updates. I figured that everyone would be interested in the top prospects because the A’s are clearly rebuilding and aren’t expected to do much at the major league level. Quite frankly, I thought it would be a refreshing change of pace to the redundant drab of a bottom-dwelling ball club. Thankfully, I’ve been wrong so f...
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The Good News and the Potentially Bad News
Posted on 9 May 2012 by Josh Muller.
I started this article yesterday and was planning on highlighting the A’s recent road trip where they took two out of three in Tampa and Boston and came within a Grant Balfour meltdown of taking two out of three from the surprising Orioles. I was going to show some optimism and point out that if the A’s can hang in there through the rest of May’s very tough schedule, they’d be in busine...
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So Far, So… meh
Posted on 25 Apr 2012 by Josh Muller.
To be perfectly honest, the Oakland Athletics lack one key component to be a perennial contending team: talent. Through the first three weeks of the season, the A’s look better than the 100-loss team most experts predicted, but are still far from being relevant. This becomes all the more evident while watching the Texas Rangers explode out of the gate to a 13-4 start with about a thousand hom...
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The Best and Worst-Case A’s
Posted on 9 Apr 2012 by Josh Muller.
Baseball is back, everyone. It’s time to emerge from under the long dark of the off-season and rejoice once again. We’ve all been looking forward to this since the final out of game seven of the World Series. Well, technically it started in Japan, but that’s forgotten by now. Hope springs eternal for all fans of baseball because at this moment, every team (even the A’s) is fighting for ...
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Our First Look at the 2012 A’s… in Japan
Posted on 31 Mar 2012 by Josh Muller.
I’m not a fan of Major League Baseball starting it’s season in Japan. The games are on super early in the morning (the first wasn’t even televised live), no one seems to be paying attention and now that the two games are over, the A’s and Mariners will return to the states to finish up spring training. What?! The entire situation is weird. I get that MLB is trying to expand its brand to...
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