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Three More Games in the Hunt for a Green October
Posted on 1 Oct 2012 by Josh Muller.
Folks, we only have three more games left in this weird, wild season. Can you believe it? And with only one series against the Texas Rangers left, the Oakland Athletics are sitting in a pretty solid spot and control their own destiny. Their magic number is down to one, which means that if they win just one game out of the final three then Oakland would be in the playoffs. Or if both the Angels ...
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A’s Have Traveled An Improbable Road
Posted on 13 Sep 2012 by Josh Muller.
As I write this on September 13, the Oakland Athletics have just taken three out of four in Anaheim, a little payback for the sweep the Angels handed the A’s in Oakland about a week ago. Since then, the A’s have won six out of seven games on the road. In fact, the A’s tied an Oakland record with 12 strait road victories, they have a one game cushion for the top wild card spot and only sit...
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Oakland A’s Deadline Preview
Posted on 19 Jul 2012 by Josh Muller.
As I write this, the A’s are preparing to welcome the New York Yankees, who come to Oakland boasting the most wins in the majors. I’m not sure there is ever a good time to face the Yankees, but this four game series represents especially unfortunate timing for the A’s. The Yankees are currently enjoying a 42 game streak where they have scored at least three runs and are approaching the ma...
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A’s First Half Report Card
Posted on 11 Jul 2012 by Josh Muller.
The All-Star break has arrived and at the symbolic halfway point of the year the Oakland A’s, rather surprisingly, have the same number of wins (43) as they do losses. And though they trail considerably in the standings to the Rangers and Angels, who are first and second in the AL West respectively, there is a ton of baseball yet to be played. But what’s even more intriguing is that, with t...
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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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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 heâ€...
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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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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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Revenge Of The Inge
Posted on 12 May 2012 by Jeremy Klumpp.
Which of the following statements about Brandon Inge is true: A) He is the first player with four games of four or more RBI's in a five-game stretch since Lou Gehrig in 1931, B) He is only the second A's player to hit two grand slams in a three game span since Jimmie Foxx in 1932, C) He is batting .244 with 4 home runs, and 17 RBI's since he joined Oakland on April 30th, or D) All of the above....
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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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