Billy Beane
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2.8K1Did the Yoenis Cespedes trade screw up a good thing in Oakland?
On August 17, 2014, a strange thing happened: the Oakland A’s — a team that has scored an average of 1.29 more...
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3.4K23The 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...
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3.1K4Beane can’t stop, won’t stop, trades Milone for Fuld … what’s next?
If general managers throughout baseball — wait, scratch that. If general managers throughout professional sports are irked in any way by Billy...
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2.2K10The future is now: Beane deals top prospects for Samardzija and Hammel
The rich get richer. That’s a typical reaction when the best team in baseball acquires two of the top pitchers in the National League,...
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2.5KA’s Add More Bullpen Depth, Sign Eric O’Flaherty
The entire baseball world is buzzing today about the Yankees inking prized Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka to a blockbuster contract, but apparently...
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What do the A's do with their abundance of pitching?
The young starting staff for the A’s dazzled against the New York Yankees in the four-game series, accounting for three wins. But...
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The A's remain hot, sweep the Yankees out of Oakland
If the reality check is coming, it’s going to be against a less-likely team. But it’s looking more and more like what...
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The A's can be a winning team even without a new stadium
It’s no secret the Oakland Athletics are trying to secure a new stadium. And, really, can you blame them? Hitters don’t want...
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Bartolo Colon pounds the strike zone
If you missed the A’s game last night because you were too busy watching the masterpiece of a pitching duel between Matt...
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Oakland A’s surprise, sign Yoenis Cespedes
By Guest Contributor Scott Willis In the bidding for Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes it was supposed to be the big money, big...
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Billy Beane’s philosophy: go small until you get a new home (fans be damned)
The Oakland Athletics made another trade today, and it was just like all the other ones they’ve made lately. They traded proven...
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Oakland Athletics’ attendance woes: what’s the cause, baseball or ballpark?
In the comments responding to yesterday’s post titled, “Why Giants fans should root for a new Oakland A’s ballpark,” there’s an interesting...
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What Moneyball Should Have Taught Us
With the release of the Moneyball movie there has been quite a bit of revisiting the A’s of the early 2000s and,...
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San Francisco Giants And Oakland Athletics Preview 2011: Best- And Worst-Case Scenarios
For the first time since 2004, it isn’t completely ludicrous to suggest there’s a possibility of a second Bay Bridge World Series....
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Just another ha-ha-ha-ha-ha … laugher!
I hope Mike Krukow’s cool with me stealing one of his favorite lines for this headline. After all, Duane Kuiper has experience...
