Yoenis Cespedes
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3.3K23The Jon Lester trade better work out for Billy Beane
Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball is famous primarily for its description of how the Oakland A’s, a team with extreme salary restrictions, was able to compete in an unfair and unbalanced market. It’s the ultimate Cinderella story, the epitome of David vs. Goliath, what have you. But just one thing is missing from this fairy tale: the […]
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3.0K4A’s trade Yoenis Cespedes for Jon Lester and Jonny Gomes
The A’s have gotten trade deadline day off to a bang, acquiring Jon Lester and Jonny Gomes in exchange for Yoenis Cespedes according to WEEI’s Alex Speier. Boston is also getting a competitive balance draft pick from Oakland, with Boston sending cash to the A’s. Lester was the best starting pitcher on the market, having posted an impressive 2.52 […]
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2.2K2When 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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7.4K19Giants fall again to A’s, Angel Hernandez
Hey, at least the Giants got a run tonight. Tyler Colvin’s solo homer in the seventh inning was the lone positive moment in yet another uninspiring performance by the Giants, who fell to the A’s 6-1 on Tuesday night. As is the norm lately for both clubs, the A’s took advantage of miscues and rode […]
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2.5K1That’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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2.2KA’s make it interesting, but lose slugfest to Rangers
At some point, I guess the A’s were due to be on the wrong end of a blowout. You don’t just lose two-fifths of your starting rotation (Jarrod Parker and A.J. Griffin) and plug in two unproven pitchers (Drew Pomeranz and Jesse Chavez) without having a few hiccups down the road. Monday night, Pomeranz came […]
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2.5K2Yoenis Cespedes makes the throw of the year
A cynic might look at the final score (Angels 2, Athletics 1) and the number of innings it took to get to that final score (14) and complain. We had to wait that long for a Collin Cowgill walk-off homer? But Yoenis Cespedes kept this game tied longer than it had any right to be tied, with […]
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2.7KA’s get one hit, beat Rays
One hit was all the A’s needed to trump the Rays 3-2 on Wednesday night for their fifth straight victory and 11th win in their last 12 games. That one hit just happened to be a solo home run by Brandon Moss in the fourth inning that gave the A’s a 3-0 lead. Other than that, […]
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2.6K5“Careless Whisper” helps A’s blow out White Sox 11-0
Not much could have gone better for the A’s tonight: they blew out the White Sox 11-0, won their sixth game in a row, and to top it all off, blared the George Michael classic “Careless Whisper” before Josh Reddick’s at-bats. It probably is the first time anyone has used “Careless Whisper” as a walk-up […]
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1.8KMilone pitches gem, A’s blank Nationals 8-0
Tommy Milone hasn’t start off the season as well as he would like, so an eight-inning shutout performance has to do wonders for his confidence. The A’s southpaw received plenty of run support as the offense delivered him eight runs on 12 hits. Meanwhile, Milone was dominant, allowing just two hits, three walks, and no […]
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1.8K1A’s use big first inning to rout Astros
Sonny Gray didn’t pitch great, but he didn’t have to. That’s because the A’s provided him with plenty of run support in an 11-3 rout of the Astros on Friday night. Gray, in fact, had to warm up in the bullpen again to keep his arm loose while the A’s were busy scoring run after […]
