Atlanta Braves
MLB Opening Weekend’s biggest stories and performances
Rounding up the headlines from the opening weekend of the 2021 MLB season.
Oakland Athletics
MLB
Rangers and Athletics reach mutually beneficial trade
The Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics are swapping bad contracts. A trade, announced on Saturday, will send Elvin Andrus to The Bay and Khris Davis to the Rangers.
Houston Astros
Oakland Athletics are taking advantage of low-quality AL West
The last three years in the AL West have been mostly been straightforward wins for the Houston Astros, but after a tumultuous offseason and now a difficult start to the abbreviated season, they are facing a fight to even make the expanded playoffs.
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Oakland Athletics are more dangerous than ever entering 2020
How will Oakland fare in 2020?
Atlanta Braves
Five prospects to watch out for in the 2020 MLB season
Each Major League Baseball season brings a new group of prospects ready to explode onto the big league scene. Sometimes service time nonsense deprives us of a few weeks, sometimes new contracts mean they are with us from Opening Day onwards.
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The A’s are the better team, but the Rays are built for a Wildcard win
The Tampa Bay Rays and the Oakland Athletics will get the American League side of the 2019 MLB postseason underway in just two days as for a second consecutive year a team with 95+ wins will find itself out of contention just one game in. That’s the beauty of the Wildcard games.
Cleveland Indians
End of MLB regular season: Playoff race, permutations, predictions
Sadly, the time has come to face the ending moments of a very competitive 2019 season in Major League Baseball. But while much of the playoff picture has already been determined, a few crucial battles are yet to conclude.
Cleveland Indians
Oakland Athletics, Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians in a chase for the two american league wildcard spots
The Oakland Athletics, Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians will battle it out for the last remaining playoff spots over the final week of the season. The american league wildcard race is now the final competitive contest of the regular season.
Boston Red Sox
Evaluating the chances of American League Wildcard contenders
We’re getting the most competitive AL wildcard race since 2017 but what most fans are interested in remains which teams will eventually end up playing in the play-in game on October 2nd. And what better time to evaluate the teams’ chances than when September is right round the corner?
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Oakland Athletics always find a way to be competitive, and that shouldn’t be taken for granted
They continue to overperform, and while they’re not the only team who punch above their financial weight, it shouldn’t be taken for granted.
Cincinnati Reds
Tanner Roark trade sets Oakland Athletics up to return to playoffs
Starting pitcher Tanner Roark has been traded from the Cincinnati Reds to the Oakland Athletics, as reported by The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal.
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Eric Sogard should be a trade target for the Oakland Athletics
Toronto Blue Jays versatility man Eric Sogard should be a target for the Oakland Athletics.
MLB
Pitching injuries make second wildcard the ceiling for Oakland Athletics
Oakland Athletics won 97 games in 2018 and are looking to get somewhere near that mark again in 2019. There's a lot of uncertainty in the Bay.
Chicago White Sox
Three teams that make perfect sense for former Astro Marwin Gonzalez
Swiss-army knife Marwin Gonzalez is one of several big-name, unsigned free agents. The former Houston Astro could fit on almost any Major League roster, but interest has been relatively limited thus far.
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Tug of war over Kyler Murray should be the catalyst for major changes across baseball
The Oakland Athletics are willing to do whatever it takes to get Kyler Murray to play baseball. Murray won the Heisman Trophy and is considering declaring for the NFL Draft.
