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Loading ...A’s Offseason 40-man Roster Projections: notsellingjeans™ Edition (Athletics Nation: Front Page Posts)
Posted October 8, 2008 at 9:00 amIs good hitting contagious?
More to the point: Do hitters perform better when they are surrounded by other patient, proficient hitters?
Now if you’ve already decided where you stand on that question, you have probably also decided what you think the A’s should do this winter.
Billy Beane has already mentioned an interest in finding out how much better Jack Cust could be with some …
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Monday Morning Minors Musings: Top-20 Lists Edition (Athletics Nation: Front Page Posts)
Posted October 6, 2008 at 7:30 amBoth grover and Taj will be posting their Top-20 prospect lists later on in this posting, however there are a few news tidbits regarding the A’s minor league system that should be addressed first:
- In a move that surprised no one, the A’s announced that Trevor Cahill was tabbed organizational Pitcher of the Year and Chris Carter was named organization Player of the Year …
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Giants may have bright future; A’s? Hard to tell (Oakland A's Headlines)
Posted October 4, 2008 at 10:16 pmIT HAS BEEN a week since the misery ended. General managers Billy Beane and Brian Sabean have delivered their state-of-the-sorrow addresses. So, only one thing left to ask as we survey Bay Area baseball in 2008.
Tags: Billy Beane, Brian Sabean (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Shea on baseball: Once again, Marlins ready to dump players (SFGate Sports: Oakland A's)
Posted October 4, 2008 at 6:05 pmWho’ll be baseball’s busiest general manager in the offseason? Perhaps Brian Sabean or Billy Beane, considering the big holes in the middle of the Giants and A’s lineups? How about Brian Cashman or Omar Minaya? Lots of tweaking needed in New York as the teams…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Letters to The Green: Special time for Bay Area sports (SFGate Sports: Oakland A's)
Posted October 4, 2008 at 5:05 pmEditor - The Giants most closely resemble the Pirates - no, not the team from Pittsburgh, the one in Altoona. The A’s are entering Year 15 of their five-year rebuilding plan, and Billy Beane just traded their batboy for a couple of prospects because the kid…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...A’s season wrap: Beane will go shopping for a hitter (Oakland Athletics)
Posted September 30, 2008 at 8:18 amA’s General Manager Billy Beane played things typically close to the vest in his end-of-the-season media briefing Monday at the Oakland Coliseum.
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Tags: Billy Beane, end-of-the-season media, Oakland Coliseum (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Beane won’t mortgage future for quick A’s fix (Oakland A's Headlines)
Posted September 29, 2008 at 8:24 pmOAKLAND — Never one to map out his intentions in concrete detail, A’s general manager Billy Beane played things close to the vest in his end-of-the-season media briefing Monday afternoon at the Oakland Coliseum.
Tags: Billy Beane, end-of-the-season media, Oakland Coliseum (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Catfish Stew: Win One for the Sipper (Catfish Stew)
Posted September 28, 2008 at 12:04 pmConfession time: Your correspondent did not expect the A’s to be very good this year. In those heady days of spring training, when all teams start out 0-0 and everyone is mathematically alive, I looked at the 2008 handiwork of Billy Beane and saw 95 losses, a last-place finish, and 1979-sized crowds dotting the Coliseum’s many available seats.
Tags: Billy Beane (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The 2009 Oakland A’s Starting Pitchers? (Athletics Nation: Front Page Posts)
Posted September 23, 2008 at 7:00 amIt’s been the unlucky 13 for the Oakland Athletics in 2008. The A’s have had 13 different pitchers start at least one game for the A’s this year. You ready for this list? Joe Blanton, Rich Harden, Justin Duchscherer, Gio Gonzalez, Kirk Saarloos, Lenny DiNardo, Chad Gaudin, Dan Meyer, Josh Outman, Sean Gallagher, Dallas Braden, Dana Eveland and Greg Smith.
Some of those guys were traded, …
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...A’s Beane takes the blame as Angels just get better (SFGate Sports: Oakland A's)
Posted September 22, 2008 at 6:02 pmThe Joe Blanton trade was only a few hours old when this space extolled the wisdom of Billy Beane’s philosophy. The A’s utter collapse seemed to follow on cue, along with a torrent of e-mails suggesting that Beane and your columnist find some other line of…