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  • Giants’ 2024 depth chart: How the first week of free agency changed the roster
    • Giants’ 2024 depth chart: How the first week of free agency changed the roster
    Devin Singletary | Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images What’s been done, and what still needs to be done The New York Giants are a much different team than they were before NFL free agency started on Monday. Let’s go through what they have done, and what it might mean for what GM Joe Schoen still has to do this offseason. Players gained: Edge Brian Burns (via trade)OG Jon Ruynan Jr. OL Jerma...2024
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  • Patrick Mahomes, the Oakland A’s, the NFL salary cap, and the uphill battle of trying to compete with the Kansas City Chiefs
    • Patrick Mahomes, the Oakland A’s, the NFL salary cap, and the uphill battle of trying to compete with the Kansas City Chiefs
    Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports How do you win against the Chiefs’ burgeoning dynasty? The 2023 Kansas City Chiefs and all that this team stands for On Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs won their third super bowl in five years. In the minutes after, Travis Kelce made clear that the Chiefs had no desire for that run to end here when he yelled, “The goal has always been to get three. But we c...2024
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  • 2023 Braves Season in Review: Matt Olson
    • 2023 Braves Season in Review: Matt Olson
    Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports The Braves’ slugging first baseman put up numbers like no one in franchise history in 2023. The 2023 version of Matt Olson reminded Braves’ fans, and the baseball community at large, that he is among the scariest left-handed hitters in the game. Along with Ronald Acuña Jr., he formed as dynamic a duo as the Braves have had since a couple of guys surnamed Jones ...2023
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  • • Words of Wisdom Reminder
    Please excuse the profanity, but the fans of the Braves, Dodgers, Orioles, and Rays need to remember this from Billy Beane: Billy said, “My shit doesn’t work in the playoffs. My job is to get us to the playoffs. What happens after that is fucking luck.” LitCharts.com on Moneyball The good news is that with twelve teams […]...2023
  • This Day in Braves History: Albert Hall hits for the cycle
    • This Day in Braves History: Albert Hall hits for the cycle
    Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1933: The Phillies and Braves, split a twin bill, each winning 5-4. Chuck Klein has three hits in each game, including his National League-high 28th homer in the opener. Boston’s Wally Berger, second in homers with 26, is out of action and doesn’t play today. 1948: The Braves clinch the National League flag by defeating the G...2023
  • Hitting home runs is supposed to be hard
    • Hitting home runs is supposed to be hard
    One of the most quoted lines on the movie "Moneyball" is when the Ron Washington character tells the Scott Hatteberg character, about playing first base, that "it's incredibly hard."That line resonates because:1. Washington is using blunt terms to cut through the BS that Billy Beane is attempting to lay on a reluctant Hatteberg in order to get him to sign and play first.2. Baseball is hard. We wan...2023

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Billy Beane injury and suspension

  • • Giants’ 2024 depth chart: How the first week of free agency changed the roster
    2024
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  • • Know Your (Not) Enemy: Oakland A’s
    Throw away the key while you’re at it. | Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images Solidarity now, solidarity forever, but also let’s maybe win a series The Sox head into Oakland, a city which for years meant sure and certain losses for the South Siders, but now is an empty monument to the greed and cynicism of our billionaire failures and their bankruptcy of decency, ethics, and ima...2023
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  • • Doctor Doctor
    Give me the news. Doctor Doctor give me the news I’ve been battling a second bout of Covid this last week which has given me a chance to watch a lot of television, old shows I haven’t seen in ages, some inspired playoff hockey and a lot of baseball. The Royals looked good in their two-game winning streak. How pathetic is that, when you consider two games the high-water mark of the year? That got m...2023
  • • Lassitude; or, Why the Sox aren’t Serena
    This is sports at its best. The White Sox are not. | Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports On good sports, bad sports, and the torpor of failure Today is the first day of the US Open — well, yesterday, by the time you read this, but I’m living in the present. That’s a little difficult to do right now, reflecting on the incredible career of Serena Williams, who might be playing her last match ...2022
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  • • Why the Athletics are set to reconstruct roster after crashing out early again in MLB playoffs
    Billy Beane and company have a lot of questions to answer before 2021...2020
  • • Athletics shut ace Sean Manaea down with rotator cuff injury
    The hits keep on coming for the Oakland Athletics. No, we’re not talking about the surprising team’s offense. Instead, it’s all about the injuries that continue to impact Oakland’s rotation.On the very same day that Brett Anderson was placed on the 10-day disabled list comes this news about ace starter Sean Manaea.Placed on the DL this past weekend with a shoulder injury, the A’s are now shutting ...2018
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  • • Coco Crisp: Latest News, Rumors and Speculation Surrounding Athletics OF
    2016
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  • • Report: A’s strength trainer planted hidden cameras to spy on players in weight room
    Oakland A’s strength trainer, Michael Henriques, was recently suspended by the club after having been caught using a hidden camera to spy on the team. This information came out on Friday, via Tim Brown of Yahoo Sports, who reports the club had an independent investigator come in, and that MLB “including its Department of Investigations, and the Players Association” monitored the investigation. The...2016
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  • • A's Coach Michael Henriques Reportedly Suspended for Weight Room Hidden Camera
    2016
  • • A's Coach Michael Henriques Reportedly Suspended for Weight Room Hidden Camera
    2016

Timeline

  • 2024
    "Billy Beane and doing something different A famous quote from the movie Moneyball is spoken by actor Brad Pitt, portraying Oakland A’s then General Manager Billy Beane."

  • 2023
    "” In the 90s, ownership began cutting back on player payroll, the General Manager Billy Beane still found a way to win division titles with good pitching and a “Moneyball” approach."

  • 2022
    "With Billy Beane’s recent transition to an advisory role with the A’s, Cashman became the longest-tenured baseball operations…"

  • 2021
    "Athletics executive vice president of baseball operations Billy Beane has with drawn his name from consideration for the Mets’ vacant president of baseball operations role, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports (Twitter link)."

  • 2020
    "Moneyball guru Billy Beane has strengthening his ties with AZ Alkmaar after buying a minority share in the Dutch club."

  • 2019
    "Kyler Murray has until tomorrow to declare his eligibility for the NFL Draft, and a contingent from the A’s front office (including Billy Beane and David Forst) is meeting with the two-sport star and his camp today to try and convince him to remain in the Athletics’ farm system rather than pursue a pro football career."

  • 2018
    "She cites “increasing speculation in baseball circles and among those who know the A’s higher-ups” that the existing combination of VP of baseball ops Billy Beane, GM David Forst, and manager Bob Melvin may not…"

  • 2017
    "  After missing out on Encarnacion, per Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports, A's general manager Billy Beane gave 36-year-old outfielder Rajai Davis $6 million for one year."

  • 2016
    "Most notably, though, DePodesta served under Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane from 1999 through 2004."

  • 2015
    "Oakland president and GM Billy Beane originally was offered the real-life role of Red Sox GM in 2002 and, had he not had a change of heart and reneged after accepting the job, who knows which route Epstein would have run to the ball?"

  • 2014
    "Support his big moves or not, Billy Beane made one thing clear: The Athletics' season probably would have ended sooner without Jon Lester as a part of it."

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Billy Beane trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

  • • Giants’ 2024 depth chart: How the first week of free agency changed the roster
    2024
  • • Patrick Mahomes, the Oakland A’s, the NFL salary cap, and the uphill battle of trying to compete with the Kansas City Chiefs
    2024
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  • • 2023 Braves Season in Review: Matt Olson
    2023
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  • • Doctor Doctor
    2023
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  • • It looks like the Athletics are moving to Las Vegas
    Photo by Otto Greule Jr/Allsport/Getty Images The nomadic franchise will uproot again. The Athletics, who have called Oakland home since 1968, announced they have entered a binding agreement to purchase land in Las Vegas for a $1.5 billion stadium and their efforts for a new ballpark will be focused there. There are still hoops to be jumped through, including approval of a funding mechanis...2023
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  • • Can Rams win with ‘moneyball’ constructed roster in 2023?
    Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images Can Rams get similar production as lesser players replace stars in 2023? “The problem we’re trying to solve is that there are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there’s fifty feet of crap, and then there’s us.” It’s the famous quote from Bennett Miller’s movie Moneyball, telling the story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics. In 2002, the Athletics ...2023
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  • • Value of Things: Should the Texans Take Two Quarterbacks?
    Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images Should the Texans take another quarterback on day three? Both Nick Caserio and DeMeco Ryans have said the same thing as it pertains to quarterbacks. They keep telling us that they have only one quarterback in the QB room and both refuse to say his name. The jokes tell themselves at this point. Some have suggested for Davis Mills to wear a t-shit that sa...2023
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  • • Oakland Athletics Top 10 Prospects for 2023 Fantasy Baseball
    Tough sledding ahead for Oakland. Might feel like the worst is behind you at first after your team tears down, but I don’t think that’s the case. The worst part is three seasons later when you still can’t see any daylight and just keep losing every day. I don’t think that’ll be the case for Oakland. Billy Beane is probably not a full-tanking type, and I’m happy for that. Off-season signing Aledmys...2023
  • • Yankees Extend GM Brian Cashman
    The Yankees announced Monday that they’ve signed general manager Brian Cashman to a four-year contract extension.  He’s now signed through 2026. Now 55 years old, Cashman has been in place as the Yankees’ general manager since 1998. With Billy Beane’s recent transition to an advisory role with the A’s, Cashman became the longest-tenured baseball operations…...2022
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  • Rockets Tried To Hire Billy Beane, Jay Bilas In 2006 Before Deciding On Daryl Morey
    • Rockets Tried To Hire Billy Beane, Jay Bilas In 2006 Before Deciding On Daryl Morey
    When the Houston Rockets looked for a replacement for Carroll Dawson to run their front office in 2006, Les Alexander wanted a big name. Alexander initially tried to lure Billy Beane from the Oakland Athletics and then offered the job to Jay Bilas, but the two sides couldn't agree on contract terms. Alexander eventually decided on Morey, who had a dual role with the Boston Celtics on the business ...2022
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Billy Beane stats and results

  • • Patrick Mahomes, the Oakland A’s, the NFL salary cap, and the uphill battle of trying to compete with the Kansas City Chiefs
    2024
  • • 2023 Braves Season in Review: Matt Olson
    2023
  • • This Day in Braves History: Albert Hall hits for the cycle
    2023
  • • Can Rams win with ‘moneyball’ constructed roster in 2023?
    2023
  • • Value of Things: Should the Texans Take Two Quarterbacks?
    2023
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  • • Prospect News: Amaya’s Alive Or Jonah Bride of Frankenstein
    26-year-old Oakland 3B Jonah Bride isn’t married to any one position. He’s even messed around at catcher the last couple seasons. Impressive that despite his wandering ways he’s posted plus offensive seasons at every extended stop (wRC+ scores of 122, 130, 149, and the 175 in 12 games at AAA this season). He played third base in his debut and isn’t going to unseat Sean Murphy anytime soon, but he ...2022
  • • Starling On The Dock Of The Bay
    On a treadmill, Billy Beane screaming at Jonah Hill, "Get me Starling Marte!" as he presses the speed faster and faster. Now, he's at a brisk pace that could be described as, "Miguel Sano rolling downhill." Jonah Hill, knowing he has to do as his boss says, or risk being fired, trades Jesus Luzardo for Starling Marte and that's when...The music rises. All we see is a bandana tied around the back o...2021
  • • A's working on convincing Kyler Murray to forego NFL Draft
    Kyler Murray has until tomorrow to declare his eligibility for the NFL Draft, and a contingent from the A’s front office (including Billy Beane and David Forst) is meeting with the two-sport star and his camp today to try and convince him to remain in the Athletics’ farm system rather than pursue a pro football career.  The situation could result in a unique resolution between the two sides and th...2019
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  • • Santiago Casilla to A's: Latest Contract Details, Comments, Reaction
    2017
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  • • Report: A's likely to trade Sonny Gray before deadline
    Teams in need of starting pitching probably should give Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics a call before Monday’s non-waiver deadline. There are no new specific deals linked to the A’s, but Oakland likely will trade right-hander Sonny Gray and “would definitely” deal left-hander Rich Hill after he recovers from his blister, according to The Boston Globe’s Nick Cafardo. Gray has been linked to m...2016
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Billy Beane parents, kids, wife / husband, girlfriend / boyfriend

  • • Know Your (Not) Enemy: Oakland A’s
    2023
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  • • Doctor Doctor
    2023
    Visit the page Esteury Ruiz
  • • Lassitude; or, Why the Sox aren’t Serena
    2022
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  • • Prospect News: Amaya’s Alive Or Jonah Bride of Frankenstein
    2022
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  • • Rays’ Pride Night draws largest crowd in a decade
    The Tampa Bay Rays held Pride Night at Tropicana Field on Friday, drawing the biggest regular-season crowd in a decade, ESPN reports. Officially, 40,135 people attended the event, which was reasonably priced at $5 per ticket. As promised, 100 percent of the proceeds went to the Pulse Victims Fund (over $300,000 in total), which was created in the wake of the horrific terrorist attack that claimed ...2016
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  • • Statement From Athletics Regarding Sean Murphy
    OAKLAND, Calif. – Sean Murphy, who played six seasons in the Oakland A’s farm system, passed away unexpectedly on Monday in Arizona. He was 27 years old. “The A’s are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of Sean Murphy,” said Billy Beane, executive vice president of baseball operations for the Oakland Athletics. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.” Murphy was selected by the A...2016
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  • • Monday Morning Hangover: Do Any Wild-Card Winners Have a Chance Next Week?
    2016
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  • • Theo Epstein Erases Losing Traditions as Baseball's Miracle Worker
    2015
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  • • Constructing a Perfect Dave Dombrowski-Led Red Sox Rebuilding Plan
    2015
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  • • Bleacher Report's 2015 MLB Trade Season Preview and Predictions
    2015
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Top Billy Beane news

  • • A's Beane defends trades despite early exit
    2014
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  • • Paul DePodesta Leaves Mets to Become Executive VP of Browns
    2016
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  • • Theo Epstein Erases Losing Traditions as Baseball's Miracle Worker
    2015
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  • • Prospect to priesthood: Desme discusses decision
    A's executive vice president of baseball operations Billy Beane was driving home from an offseason luncheon with sponsors in late January 2010 when the phone call came. Grant Desme, coming off a breakthrough year and in Beane's estimation one of the two top prospects in the organization, dropped a bombshell....2016
  • • A's Coach Michael Henriques Reportedly Suspended for Weight Room Hidden Camera
    2016
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  • • Billy Beane Withdraws Name From Consideration For Mets’ Job
    Athletics executive vice president of baseball operations Billy Beane has with drawn his name from consideration for the Mets’ vacant president of baseball operations role, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports (Twitter link). MLB Network’s Jon Heyman tweeted earlier in the day that the Mets were quite pessimistic about their chances of luring Beane, and…...2021
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  • • Brandon Moss to Indians: Latest Trade Details, Comments and Reaction
    2014
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  • • Cardinals’ GM Michael Girsch Declines To Pursue Opportunity With Mets
    The Mets have already been turned down by a handful of targets in their search for a new baseball operations head. Each of Theo Epstein, Billy Beane, David Stearns, Matt Arnold, Scott Harris and Brandon Gomes had been raised as potential candidates only to later be ruled out of consideration. Cardinals general manager Michael Girsch…...2021
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Billy Beane fantasy rankings and news

  • • Atlanta Braves Relives Boston Days By Adding Sean Murphy
    Finally, a trade! No team but the A's could make Sean Murphy into the impetus for a three-team trade with eight players involved. Sean Murphy to the A's; Oakland gets Kyle Muller, Esteury Ruiz, Freddy Tarnok, Royber Salinas and Manny Pina; Milwaukee gets William Contreras, Justin Yeager and Joel Payamps. Braves turning William Contreras into Sean Murphy, presumably at DH and catcher, is such a why...2022
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  • • Starling On The Dock Of The Bay
    2021
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  • • Will Padres' Upton-Kemp-Myers Push to Win Now Pay off Big or Backfire?
    2014
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  • • Billy Beane Continues to Sell High on A's 2014 All-Stars with Derek Norris Deal
    2014
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  • • Blockbuster Josh Donaldson Trade Shows Jays All-in for 2015, A's Retooling Again
    2014
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Billy Beane schedule, game

  • • Giants’ 2024 depth chart: How the first week of free agency changed the roster
    2024
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  • • Patrick Mahomes, the Oakland A’s, the NFL salary cap, and the uphill battle of trying to compete with the Kansas City Chiefs
    2024
  • • 2023 Braves Season in Review: Matt Olson
    2023
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  • • Words of Wisdom Reminder
    2023
  • • This Day in Braves History: Albert Hall hits for the cycle
    2023
  • Moneyball — Sunday Morning Quote
    • Moneyball — Sunday Morning Quote
    The math works. Over the course of a season, there’s some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There’s so much data that you can predict: individual players’ performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off. — Billy Beane — Joe Boesch...2023
  • • Know Your (Not) Enemy: Oakland A’s
    2023
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  • • Doctor Doctor
    2023
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  • • It looks like the Athletics are moving to Las Vegas
    2023
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  • • Atlanta Braves Relives Boston Days By Adding Sean Murphy
    2022
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Billy Beane rumors, scandals

  • • No Current Discussions Between Mets, Billy Beane
    There’s already been plenty of speculation regarding the Mets’ search for a president of baseball operations. They’ve been very loosely tied to notable names like Theo Epstein, Josh Byrnes, Chris Antonetti, and Derek Falvey in recent weeks, and chatter has picked up over the past few days about a potential run at another marquee executive:…...2021
  • There’s no excuse for Yankees to look this broken
    • There’s no excuse for Yankees to look this broken
    In Michael Lewis’ legendary book “Moneyball,” the protagonist, Billy Beane laments, “My [bleep] doesn’t work in the playoffs.” The 2021 Yankees have seen that concept and raised it: Their (bleep) isn’t working at all. What an embarrassing display of baseball Friday night at Yankee Stadium. What a shocking, distressing start to the Yankees’ season. This......2021
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  • Billy Beane expected to return to A's front office in 2021
    • Billy Beane expected to return to A's front office in 2021
    Amidst much speculation about the future of the Athletics’ front office, the team’s chief baseball officials (executive VP of baseball operations Billy Beane, GM David Forst, and assistant GM Billy Owens) are expected to continue working in Oakland for the 2021 season....2020
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  • • Beane, Forst, Owens Expected To Return To A’s Front Office In 2021
    Amidst much speculation about the future of the Athletics’ front office, the team’s chief baseball officials (executive VP of baseball operations Billy Beane, GM David Forst, and assistant GM Billy Owens) are expected to continue working in Oakland for the 2021 season, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle writes.  In addition to Slusser’s sources,…...2020
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  • • Athletics extend contracts of Billy Beane, Bob Melvin and David Forst following shocking 97-win season
    The A's braintrust is going nowhere for the foreseeable future...2018
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  • • AL West Notes: Athletics, Ohtani, Luhnow, Rangers Infield
    Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle takes an interesting look at the future of the Athletics’ baseball operations and field leadership. She cites “increasing speculation in baseball circles and among those who know the A’s higher-ups” that the existing combination of VP of baseball ops Billy Beane, GM David Forst, and manager Bob Melvin may not…...2018
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  • • Report: Future uncertain for Athletics' baseball operations
    Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle takes an interesting look at the future of the Athletics’ baseball operations and field leadership. She cites “increasing speculation in baseball circles and among those who know the A’s higher-ups” that the existing combination of VP of baseball ops Billy Beane, GM David Forst, and manager Bob Melvin may not be maintained past the 2019 campaign. The cl...2018
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  • • Starting Pitching Notes: Gray, Mets, Colon, Orioles
    The latest on some rotation names around baseball… Sonny Gray’s name has been frequently mentioned in trade speculation, though it appears teams have yet to engage in serious talks with the Athletics, Peter Gammons of GammonsDaily.com reports (Twitter link).  Oakland executive VP of baseball operations Billy Beane hasn’t received any calls about Gray in recent…...2017
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  • • MLB Celebrity Softball Game 2016: Winner, Twitter Reaction and Highlights
    2016
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  • • Monday Morning Hangover: Do Any Wild-Card Winners Have a Chance Next Week?
    2016
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