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Heisman finalist Kyler Murray, Oklahoma QB and pro baseball prospect
Heisman finalist Kyler Murray, Oklahoma QB and pro baseball prospect
By Cliff Brunt
NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma’s Kyler Murray pulled off an impressive triple play during a brutal 30-hour stretch in April. On a Friday night, he played center field for the Sooners’ baseball team. The ...
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Kyler Murray’s agent: A’s pick will stick with baseball despite NFL talk
Kyler Murray’s representative, Scott Boras, is the most powerful agent in baseball, and Boras firmly told The Chronicle on Thursday that the A’s top draft pick will fulfill his commitment to Oakland ...
Giants’ Dave Righetti to remain in organization
Former Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti is not riding into the sunset just yet. Righetti, whose contract with the club was due to expire at the end of the year, will have a place in the new baseball ...
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A’s allow Kendall Graveman, Mike Fiers to become free agents
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A’s stadium at Howard Terminal? Plenty of pep, few details
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, in characterizing the status of the negotiations between the A’s and the city over land for a new ballpark, went romantic. The mayor was sitting next to A’s President Dave ...
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred wants better scrutiny on political donations
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Braves add ex-A’s third baseman Josh Donaldson, bring back Brian McCann
Associated Press
Looking to improve on their first division title in five years, the Braves agreed Monday to one-year contracts with former A’s third baseman Josh Donaldson and catcher Brian McCann — two low-risk moves ...
Rangers’ Adrian Beltre retires after 21 seasons, 3,166 hits
Chronicle News Services
Adrian Beltre of the Texas Rangers retired Tuesday after 21 seasons in a career in which he hit 477 home runs and became the first player from the Dominican Republic to have 3,000 hits. The 39-year-old ...
A’s Khris Davis wins award as best designated hitter
Khris Davis of the A’s was the best designated hitter of 2018. So say the writers, broadcasters and club public-relations officials whose votes earned Davis the 2018 Edgar Martinez Outstanding DH Award. ...
Yankees expected to add pitcher James Paxton from Mariners
Associated Press
The Yankees acquired left-hander James Paxton from the rebuilding Mariners on Monday for top prospect Justus Sheffield and two other minor-leaguers. “I think I’ll be a great fit. They seem very ...
A’s have interest in bringing Kurt Suzuki back again
The A’s are a team that doesn’t shy away from bringing alumni home for a second or even third go-round, and that might extend to the team’s catching spot next season. The Chronicle has learned that ...
A’s Bob Melvin showing how to be old-school in new age of baseball
By Ann Killion
Sometime during the offseason, Bob Melvin might want to pop open a bottle of Sonoma Pinot Noir and invite his friend Bruce Bochy over for a glass. And for a nice long conversation about the brave new world ...
A’s Bob Melvin wins his third Manager of the Year award
Twice before, Bob Melvin had earned Manager of the Year honors from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. He did so again Tuesday following Melvin’s toughest task to date — taking the A’s ...
Atlanta’s Brian Snitker wins NL Manager of the Year award
Associated Press
Brian Snitker, who guided Atlanta to a surprise division title in the NL East, won the National League Manager of the Year award Tuesday. Snitker received 17 first-place votes, nine seconds and one third ...
Angels’ Shohei Ohtani, Braves’ Ronald Acuña Jr. named Rookies of Year
Associated Press
Two-way player Shohei Ohtani was a singular sensation in voting for AL Rookie of the Year. A standout on the mound and at the plate for the Angels, Ohtani was an overwhelming pick for American League ...
Good news for A’s ballpark plans, but don’t pop the Champagne yet
By Scott Ostler
Good news for A’s fans. I think. I asked team President Dave Kaval : Do the A’s still expect to pick a ballpark site by the end of this year, as you promised? The answer, delivered by Catherine ...
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 ...
A’s Matt Chapman wins Defensive Player of the Year, a team first
By Jon Schultz
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
By John Shea
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
Associated Press
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
By John Shea
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 ...
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Kyler Murray’s agent: A’s pick will stick with baseball despite NFL talk
Kyler Murray’s representative, Scott Boras, is the most powerful agent in baseball, and Boras firmly told The Chronicle on Thursday that the A’s top draft pick will fulfill his commitment to Oakland ...
Giants’ Dave Righetti to remain in organization
Former Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti is not riding into the sunset just yet. Righetti, whose contract with the club was due to expire at the end of the year, will have a place in the new baseball ...
Mariners’ teardown continues: Robinson Cano to Mets, Jean Segura to Phils
The Mets acquired second baseman Robinson Cano and major-league saves leader Edwin Diaz from Seattle in a seven-player trade. The Mets also are getting $20 million from the rebuilding Mariners in the ...
A’s allow Kendall Graveman, Mike Fiers to become free agents
Right-handers Kendall Graveman and Mike Fiers, the A’s Opening Day starter and key midseason acquisition, respectively, are free agents after the club declined to tender them contracts by Friday’s ...
A’s stadium at Howard Terminal? Plenty of pep, few details
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, in characterizing the status of the negotiations between the A’s and the city over land for a new ballpark, went romantic. The mayor was sitting next to A’s President Dave ...
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred wants better scrutiny on political donations
Major League Baseball will put in place new procedures for vetting political contributions after giving $5,000 to Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican senator from Mississippi, and then asking for the money back ...