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Bobby Crosby among former A’s joining team’s development staff
Bobby Crosby among former A’s joining team’s development staff
The A’s, ever more in touch with their past, are extending that to their minor-league system, bringing back three former players to work in development. The team announced Thursday that former ...
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A’s Matt Chapman wins Defensive Player of the Year, a team first
A’s third baseman Matt Chapman is piling up honors after his first full major-league season. Chapman won the Wilson Defensive Player of the Year award, the first time an A’s player has earned the ...
A’s building 2019 team with dwindling revenue sharing
CARLSBAD, San Diego County — If the A’s drastically improve their rotation and make another playoff run in 2019, they’ll do it with dwindling assistance from Major League Baseball. Revenue sharing, ...
Astros’ Lance McCullers will miss 2019 season
Houston right-hander Lance McCullers Jr. will miss all of next season following Tommy John surgery. The Astros announced McCullers had the ulnar-collateral ligament in his right elbow repaired Tuesday. ...
A’s coaches all returning after playoff season
The entire band will be back in Oakland. The A’s announced Tuesday that manager Bob Melvin’s entire coaching staff will return for the 2019 season. Teams as successful as the A’s typically lose a ...
Billy Beane of A’s named baseball’s Executive of Year
CARLSBAD, San Diego County — Billy Beane, whose A’s won 97 games and posted the majors’ best record after mid-June, was named Executive of the Year by Major League Baseball on Monday. It’s the ...
Giants’ Will Clark, A’s Harold Baines get another Hall of Fame shot
First baseman Will Clark, a beloved San Francisco Giant who got little love from Hall of Fame voters after he retired, is getting another chance. So is outfielder Harold Baines, who spent just three of ...
A’s manager Bob Melvin a finalist for AL Manager of the Year
In something of a foregone conclusion, A’s manager Bob Melvin was named one of the three finalists for the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s American League Manager of the Year Award on ...
Rangers turn to Woodward as manager
Associated Press
Chris Woodward grew up wanting to be an architect or an engineer. He also had what he thought was a far-fetched dream of playing professional baseball. The kid from California who was a 54th-round draft ...
At Willie McCovey’s last birthday party, a glimpse of what set him apart
The scene was the same after every Giants game. Willie McCovey, in a wheelchair, would be taken down the elevator behind the plate at AT&T Park. As a security guard walked ahead to clear a path, ...
A’s Matt Chapman, Matt Olson win Gold Gloves; Giants shut out
Like everything else about the 2018 major-league season, Sunday’s Gold Glove announcements brought cheer to the east side of the bay and disappointment to the west. The A’s, whose surprising run ...
A’s, Giants approach GM meetings with unsettled rotations
By John Shea
The A’s and Giants don’t have much in common these days. One team won 97 games with a tiny payroll, and the other won 73 with a huge payroll. But both need to solidify their rotations and certainly ...
A’s exercise option on 41-year-old reliever Fernando Rodney
The Oakland A’s, otherwise known for their love of youth, are bringing back 41-year-old reliever Fernando Rodney, known for the cap he wears askew and celebratory bow-and-arrow mime when he ends an ...
A’s keep brain trust together, extend Billy Beane, David Forst, Bob Melvin
By Susan Slusser and John Shea
A day after the Red Sox won the World Series, A’s executive vice president Billy Beane called them the best team since the 1998 Yankees. “It’s a pretty unique team,” Beane said Monday. “They ...
A’s announce new deals for Bob Melvin, Billy Beane, David Forst
After one of the A’s most intriguing and surprisingly successful seasons, the team’s baseball leadership — vice president of baseball operations Billy Beane, general manager David Forst and manager ...
Giants seen as 2019 Series longshot, but could they land a top free agent?
The visitors’ locker room at Dodger Stadium likely still reeks of Champagne and Boston has yet to have its World Series victory parade, but the folks at SportsBettingDime.com are already speculating ...
A’s Petit, Giants’ Meulens to tour Japan in All-Star series
By John Shea
A’s reliever Yusmeiro Petit is the lone Bay Area player named to the roster that will tour Japan next month. In a joint announcement Monday by Major League Baseball and the players’ union, the ...
A’s Matt Chapman, Matt Olson win defensive awards
By John Shea
Corner infielders Matt Chapman and Matt Olson of the A’s won Fielding Bible Awards for their defensive prowess, it was announced Monday. The awards are presented annually by Baseball Info Solutions and ...
Eduardo Nuñez, Max Muncy go from Bay Area ripples to shining on biggest stage
By John Shea
As we all predicted when the Giants parted with Eduardo Nuñez and the A’s with Max Muncy , they’ve become faces of the 2018 World Series. Game 1 was put out of reach by Nuñez’s home run, ...
Pumpsie Green, who integrated Red Sox, opens up about trail-blazing career
By John Shea and Scott Ostler
This year’s World Series pits the first major-league baseball team to integrate against the last, and Pumpsie Green takes great pride in breaking the color barrier for the shamefully intolerant Boston ...
A’s infield starters — Olson, Chapman, Lowrie, Semien — Gold Glove finalists
Much of the A’s dramatic improvement in 2018 was because of the team’s outstanding defense, and on Thursday, the team’s entire starting infield received Gold Glove-finalist honors. In their first ...
Six MLB managerial openings: no experience necessary
By John Shea
Not long ago, experienced big-league managers had their way in the baseball world, floating from team to team with or without distinguished track records. They were safe hires. Easy hires. For the most ...
Talking baseball with Warriors coach Steve Kerr
By John Shea
The eminently quotable Steve Kerr has a long-standing love affair with the sport of baseball. With the World Series upon us, the Warriors’ head coach sat and talked about the game. Here are some snippets ...
Warriors coach Steve Kerr has a secret passion: baseball
By John Shea
Somewhere along the line, Steve Kerr made a wise career choice. Based on his eight NBA championships, basketball was his destiny, but there was a time in his life, before high school, when his best sport ...
A’s Matt Chapman has planned surgery to resolve thumb issue
Cortisone shots helped save the A’s season this year, alleviating discomfort in third baseman Matt Chapman’s left thumb and hand that prevented him from swinging a bat. Chapman had surgery Tuesday ...
Recalling Dennis Eckersley-Kirk Gibson, 30 years later
By John Shea
Highlights of Hall of Famers tend to be favorable toward Hall of Famers, frozen-in-time moments that set them apart from fellow legends. Willie Mays’ World Series catch that deprived Vic Wertz. Hank ...
Oakland’s Bob Melvin named Sporting News Manager of the Year
Bob Melvin, who managed the A’s to a surprise playoff spot this season after three consecutive last-place finishes, was named the American League Manager of the Year by the Sporting News on Tuesday. ...
A’s cut ties to flagship radio station
After months of hinting that they’ve parted ways with their flagship radio station, the A’s made it official, tweeting, “It’s not us, it’s you,” when their four-year contract with 95.7 FM The ...
Giants’ bid for Bryce Harper gets complicated
By John Shea
The news Friday was that Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius will undergo Tommy John surgery, and in a roundabout way, that could be a detriment to the Giants’ pursuit of Bryce Harper . The Giants will ...
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A’s Matt Chapman wins Defensive Player of the Year, a team first
A’s third baseman Matt Chapman is piling up honors after his first full major-league season. Chapman won the Wilson Defensive Player of the Year award, the first time an A’s player has earned the ...
A’s building 2019 team with dwindling revenue sharing
CARLSBAD, San Diego County — If the A’s drastically improve their rotation and make another playoff run in 2019, they’ll do it with dwindling assistance from Major League Baseball. Revenue sharing, ...
Astros’ Lance McCullers will miss 2019 season
Houston right-hander Lance McCullers Jr. will miss all of next season following Tommy John surgery. The Astros announced McCullers had the ulnar-collateral ligament in his right elbow repaired Tuesday. ...
A’s coaches all returning after playoff season
The entire band will be back in Oakland. The A’s announced Tuesday that manager Bob Melvin’s entire coaching staff will return for the 2019 season. Teams as successful as the A’s typically lose a ...
Billy Beane of A’s named baseball’s Executive of Year
CARLSBAD, San Diego County — Billy Beane, whose A’s won 97 games and posted the majors’ best record after mid-June, was named Executive of the Year by Major League Baseball on Monday. It’s the ...
Giants’ Will Clark, A’s Harold Baines get another Hall of Fame shot
First baseman Will Clark, a beloved San Francisco Giant who got little love from Hall of Fame voters after he retired, is getting another chance. So is outfielder Harold Baines, who spent just three of ...