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Spring training 2024, wherein Fisher and Kaval sit on a cactus 138

The A’s open a 33-game preseason schedule on Saturday in Mesa when they take on the Colorado Rockies. That’s the first of 29 in Arizona; there are also pairs at Las Vegas Ballpark against the Brewers on March 8-9 and the usual home-and-home with the Giants on March 25-26, before Stephen Vogt brings the Guardians ...

The early World Cup bar and grill, wherein half of the pool is thanked and excused 395

Today being the non-tender deadline, with the final list available after 5 p.m. Pacific, we can put the forgettable 2022 season behind us and start looking ahead to what one hopes will be a bit more uplifting A’s season in 2023. MLB.com has a list of some of the more prominent non-tender candidates. Maybe Emilio ...

Winter Baseball Sadness Grill 285

Marcus Semien to Jays — Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) January 26, 2021

Rosterbaiting Grill 194

So the offseason is upon us, I figure a new grill would be appropriate. What I have seen in limited Twitter scrolling is that Kolton Wong and Corey Kluber have had options declined. Speculation is that the market will be saturated. what that means to me is that clubs that are in the hunt for ...

Non-tender is the day 66

Treinen and Jurkstore are still likely to be non-tendered if they are not traded before the deadline today, with Phegley and Buchter also possibilities, per Slusser. Other candidates around the league include Addison Russell, who the A’s wisely gave up as part of a brilliant plan to acquire Marcus Semien, and has had issues on ...

2019 Rule 4 Draft 62

The downside of winning 97 games (apart from the inevitable playoff heartbreak) is a low spot in the draft. This year Oakland picks 29th, although to be fair whoever we get at that spot is still a good bet to produce more value than last year’s #9. Jonathan Mayo’s latest mock has Oakland taking Seth ...

Pitcher, Catcher, Shoulder, Cry 251

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Deadline Grill 218

Seems to me that the A’s have 3 assets (Gray, Madson, Lowrie) that are almost assuredly gone. Difficult to speculate on what Madson and Lowrie can get but Gray’s baseline is more or less established by the Quintana trade (one top 10 prospect, one top 100, 2 interesting fillers) Latest from Rosenthal: Source confirms: #Cubs ...

Budgets and shiny new things 50

This will not go quickly…   June 9, 2016 could end up a watershed day for the Oakland Athletics. It’s the day Rich Hill got placed on the Disabled List. It’s the day Oakland traded Chris Coghlan to the Chicago Cubs for Arismendy Alcantara. It’s the day the A’s took A.J. Puk sixth overall in the ...

rosterbaiting 2016 spring edition 139

What I expect from Melvin: Gray Hahn Hill Bassitt graveman doolittle Madson Axford hendrix Rzepczynski dubront rodriguez Burns Lowrie reddick valencia Vogt Davis Alonso Butler Semien Crisp Coghlan Canha Phegley I assume once fuld comes back, Canha gets optioned. Henderson Alverez gets swapped for the loser of Bassitt/graveman. I would rather see Dull than dubront. ...