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Oakland A’s Designate Daric Barton, Chris Resop for Assignment

For the second time this season Daric Barton has been designated for assignment by the Oakland A’s. The move was made to make space on the active roster for the team to activate outfielder Chris Young…Read More

Brandon McCarthy Working Way Back

The scariest thing about the 2012 baseball season was watching Oakland A’s pitcher Brandon McCarthy get hit in the head with a line drive and then learning that the contact was life-threatening…Read More

Bob Melvin AL Manager Of Year

By voting Bob Melvin the American League manager of the year, those deliberating decided that he pulled off a bigger miracle with the Oakland A’s in 2012 than Buck Showalter did with the Baltimore…Read More

Oakland A’s Crazy To Bring Bartolo Colon Back

This one comes under the category of What are they thinking? The Oakland A’s are bringing pitcher Bartolo Colon back to the team after he betrayed them by taking performance enhancing drugs and getting…Read More

Playoffs Packed With Drama

Is it possible to go directly from the bench to a monument at Yankee Stadium? Well, Raul Ibanez just did it. Home run in the bottom of the ninth to tie it. Home run in the bottom of the 12th to win it.…Read More

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No Sweeps In This Year’s Playoffs

Tuesday night was pretty magical for pitchers in the Major League playoffs. It was as if some stronger…Read More

Giants, A’s Reeling, Reds, Tigers Ascending

One Major League post-season tradition is draping ballparks in red, white and blue bunting. This is…Read More

Maybe Orioles Or A’s Will Win It All

If I was a baseball think tank I would be declaring bankruptcy after going into the tank. The Baltimore…Read More

Baltimore Orioles and Oakland Athletics in Playoffs, Universe Still Intact

Don’t let anybody tell you that baseball isn’t insane. Both the Oakland A’s and the…Read More

Unbeliveably, Oakland Still Alive in AL West Race

The Oakland Athletics were supposed to lose 90+ games in 2012. As Jonny Gomes, who homered in Oakland’s…Read More

Orioles, A’s, White Sox Biggest AL Surprises

We are in the homestretch of the long season that began in April and while there are games to be played…Read More

Oakland A’s New Feel Good Team

With the boneheaded management move by Washington Nationals leaders benching Stephen Strasburg for the…Read More

Brandon McCarthy is a Lucky Guy

Brandon McCarthy is fortunate to be alive. When a batted ball hits you in the head with the force of…Read More

Bartolo Colon’s Cheatin’ Heart

One of the great things about sports is its ability to surprise us and enthrall us with spectacular performances…Read More

Yankees, Reds Looking Safest

We are past the All-Star break. The regular season has less than two months to go. It’s going to…Read More

Oakland A’s Call Up Dan Straily

Dan Straily is the minor league strikeout leader.  He’s actually the leader in strikeouts regardless…Read More

Hall of Famers Love Returning to Cooperstown

  COOPERSTOWN–They are different people from different backgrounds and they played in different…Read More

MLB Scoreboard: Billy Beane’s Oakland A’s Continue To Roll With Win Over Toronto Blue Jays

AMERICAN LEAGUE Oakland Athletics 7, Toronto Blue Jays 2 That’s six straight wins for the red-hot…Read More

Ben Sheets Is Back To Beat The Odds

C’mon, how many of you really thought that Ben Sheets might become a productive starting pitcher…Read More

Jonny Gomes Reminds Us What He Can Do For A’s

In most newspaper sports sections around the country it was a small item. Friday night, Jonny Gomes smashed…Read More