Josh Donaldson
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3.8K33Bye now, you’re an All-Star: an updated look at Billy Beane’s trades
Updated (12/19): Derek Norris was dealt to the ridiculously active Padres last night, leaving the A’s with two 2014 All-Stars. When Billy Beane dealt Yoenis Cespedes and their 2015 Competitive Balance Round B pick (between the second and third rounds) to the Red Sox for Jon Lester, Jonny Gomes and cash, the message was in […]
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3.2K17Report: Billy Beane and Josh Donaldson were “at war” during 2014 season
Some of the replies posted by Josh Donaldson on Twitter less than two weeks before he was shipped to Toronto raised eyebrows. However, according to what Scott Miller of Bleacher Report heard, there might have been an even juicier reason for Billy Beane to make that trade. One industry source says he “knew” the Athletics would […]
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3.2K1Situational irony, poetic justice: Donaldson beats Machado, Orioles with walk-off blast
You couldn’t have written a script like this. Poetic justice is the best way to describe it: Manny Machado, Public Enemy No. 1 in Oakland, breaking the A’s hearts with a go-ahead two-run blast in the seventh inning, only to have Josh Donaldson snatch away the glory in a 5-4 A’s win Friday night. It […]
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2.4K2When it comes to the HR Derby, Cespedes > Puig (and everybody else)
Yoenis Cespedes won the Home Run Derby for the second consecutive year. The bushy-eyebrowed slugger started out slowly, but he finished with 25 home runs in the final three rounds and 30 overall — one fewer than the combined totals from Todd Frazier, Jose Bautista and Giancarlo Stanton, the other three contestants who made it as far […]
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2.6K1Athletics HBP their way to victory over Red Sox
The A’s acquired Brad Mills, tonight’s starting pitcher, for a dollar in a trade with the Brewers, so of course they beat the Red Sox in Mills’ first major league appearance since 2012. It was a 4-3 final score in a game that lasted nearly three and a half hours. It was definitely a grinder, […]
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2.7K1That’s so Oakland: A’s double up Red Sox, improve on MLB’s best record
The Oakland A’s won their league-leading 45th game on Thursday night against the Red Sox, and they did it in typical A’s fashion. You know … Scott Kazmir, who two years ago was out of baseball entirely, pitching seven strong innings and making just one mistake all game, maintaining a 2.08 ERA and notching his […]
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2.3KA’s looked fatigued, sloppy in loss to Angels
When the A’s faced Garrett Richards two weeks ago, he didn’t even make it through an inning before the A’s knocked him around for five runs. This time out, the A’s couldn’t solve Richards. The righty allowed just four hits and one run in seven innings as the A’s were handled by the Angels 4-1 […]
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2.6K3A’s fans have a right to boo Jim Johnson
Let me just preface this by saying that booing a pitcher for not doing his job doesn’t help him one bit. It decreases his morale, shrinks his self-confidence and frustrates him to no end. It makes matters worse if he’s putting in extra effort and trying his best to rectify the situation, yet still gets […]
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2.1K4Donaldson a hero as A’s come alive in ninth to beat Tigers
The A’s haven’t been celebrating as many walk-off wins this season as they did a couple years ago, but once in a while, the magic comes back in the Coliseum and it feels oh-so-good. Tonight, it was Josh Donaldson providing the impetus with a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth, giving the A’s […]
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2.8KA’s prevail in squirrelly game over Indians
This was a game that had a lot of weird and wacky involved, from A’s starting pitcher Scott Kazmir being ejected in the second inning to a squirrel running around the playing field in the fourth and a blown home run call in the seventh that brought back not-so-pleasant memories of Angel Hernandez. The final […]
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2.5K3Oakland A’s bullpen nearly blows Jesse Chavez’s masterpiece
For most teams, the loss of their Opening Day starting pitcher – their ace – would spell doom and inevitable drop in production from the pitching staff. For the A’s, it simply is an opportunity for someone like Jesse Chavez to step up. Chavez, a journeyman who had only made two starts in his career […]
