All posts tagged "Oakland Athletics"
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2.5K6Barry Zito
Series Preview: A’s vs Giants
The Bay Bridge series is back! Both teams come in after hovering around .500 all season and on paper are very evenly...
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2.2K11Brandon McCarthy
Series Preview: A’s vs Rangers
The A’s have another one of these awkward 2-game series, but this time they face much tougher competition. The Texas Rangers have been...
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Bartolo Colon
Series Preview: A’s vs Angels
Last week I introduced the first in what I am hoping to be a regular feature here at Bay Area Sports...
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Brandon McCarthy
Series Preview: A’s vs Tigers
Over the years I have read many different types of series previews and to me they have always seemed to be lacking...
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Bartolo Colon
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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Bartolo Colon
MLB changes its mind, will now televise tonight’s A’s game live from Japan
In an earlier post, Scott Willis added to the chorus of people complaining that the Oakland Athletics’ FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON wasn’t...
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MLB
A’s fall in extra innings – not that anyone in the Bay Area could’ve watched
You may have heard that the baseball season got underway this morning with the A’s and the Mariners squaring off in Japan,...
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Los Angeles Dodgers
Taking a look at the 2012 Forbes MLB valuations
Earlier today Forbes released their annual estimates of the financial situations for each Major League Baseball franchise. As a number-crunching baseball nerd, this...
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Angel Pagan
St. Paddy’s Day special: Green hats, homers and Tim Lincecum
After spending the week in the press box, I watched Saturday afternoon’s Spring Training battle between the San Francisco Giants and the...
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Oakland Athletics
Yoenis Cespedes homers in Oakland Athletics debut
Suddenly the Oakland A’s seem like a different team. It’s only one Spring Training game, but for most people that’s all they...
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Lew Wolff
Giants answer Athletics’ statement with dig of their own
You didn’t think the Giants would let the A’s release their statement in the top of the first without taking their hacks in...
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MLB
Oakland Athletics issue statement on territorial rights, Giants Dugout Stores
Think the Bill Madden story rankled the Oakland A’s, just a little? Today the Athletics released a statement on “sharing Bay Area territory,”...
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Andrew Baggarly
Despite off-season focus, Giants aren’t getting baserunners up to speed
Last week, BASG contributor Joey McMurry identified what might amount to a shift in offensive philosophy: small ball. Nate Schierholtz went so...
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Bud Selig
Extra Wild Card: MLB eschews traditionalism, copies NFL
I can already hear the grumblings after the first elimination games brought to us by Bud Selig’s extra Wild Card. Traditionalists crying...
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Billy Beane
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...
