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Loading ...A’s decline $3 million option on veteran lefty Embree (Oakland A's Headlines)
Posted October 31, 2008 at 7:24 pmThe A’s have declined to exercise their $3 million option on reliever Alan Embree for the 2009 season, making the veteran left-hander a free agent.Embree, 38, signed a two-year deal with the A’s before the 2007 season with a club option for a third season and led the team that year with 17 saves,
No tag for this post. (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...A’s let Embree shop his 38-year-old arm elsewhere (SFGate Sports: Oakland A's)
Posted October 31, 2008 at 6:27 pmLeft-hander Alan Embree is now both an ex-Giant and ex-A after Oakland decided not to exercise the veteran reliever’s $3 million option for 2009 on Friday. Embree said he is not unhappy that his option was declined. The 38-year-old plans to play one more…
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Embree’s option declined (SFGate: Oakland Athletics : The Drumbeat )
Posted October 31, 2008 at 3:45 pm From Chronicle Staff Writer Susan…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...A’s decide to let Embree go, pick up Dillon (Oakland A's Headlines)
Posted October 31, 2008 at 3:06 pmOAKLAND - The Oakland A’s have declined to exercise their club option on Alan Embree for the 2009 season, the club announced Friday. The A’s also claimed infielder Joe Dillon on waivers from the Milwaukee Brewers.
No tag for this post. (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Embree’s option declined (Chin Music)
Posted October 31, 2008 at 3:04 pmThe A’s have passed on reliever Alan Embree’s $3 million option for the upcoming season, making the left-hander a free agent. I just got off the phone with A’s assistant GM David Forst, and he said the team has told Embree they’re open to re-signing him at a smaller price tag.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Commissioner For a Day (Athletics Nation)
Posted October 31, 2008 at 12:33 am(Inspired by baseballgirl’s post from Wednesday, these four ideas all probably require collective bargaining, but I’m assuming absolute power in this hypothetical):
1. Allow the trading of draft picks and institute “hard” draft pick slotting (NBA style), which would instantly ensure that the projected best talent is always taken in the first round as it should, and as it is in every other sport with …
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...It’s crazy to even think about neutral site for World Series (SFGate Sports: Oakland A's)
Posted October 31, 2008 at 12:00 amI almost fell off my barstool the other day when Peter Gammons, the Hall of Fame baseball writer and general voice of reason, announced on espn.com that he fancies the idea of a neutral-site World Series. This is what happens when you leave a great event in…
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...MLB Notes: ChiSox decline option on Griffey (SFGate Sports: Oakland A's)
Posted October 30, 2008 at 9:52 pmKen Griffey Jr.’s $16.5 million option was declined Thursday by the Chicago White Sox, making the No. 5 home run hitter in major-league history eligible for free agency. Griffey is owed a $4 million buyout, which completes a $116.5 million, nine-year contract…
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Brewers pick Macha / Former A’s manager gets second chance (SFGate Sports: Oakland A's)
Posted October 30, 2008 at 9:52 pmThe last we saw of Ken Macha, he was managing the A’s to the 2006 American League Championship Series only to get fired two days after it ended because of a “disconnect” that prompted several players to criticize him as he walked out the door. Two years…
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Ratto: Messed-up situation turned Series into a classic of its own (SFGate Sports: Oakland A's)
Posted October 30, 2008 at 8:47 pmThursday broke clear and dry for Bud Selig, a comforting feeling given how damp and dope-slapped he’d been portrayed during the previous five days for being an inadequate meteorologist, tactician, planner and public speaker. The commissioner’s decision to…
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