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A’s To Sign LHP Hideki Okajima To Minor League Deal
(Photo: Keith Allison/Flickr) The San Francisco Chronicle reported late last night that the A’s were close to reaching an agreement with Japanese pitcher Hideki Okajima. The deal is a minor league one...
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Spring Training Game One: A’s Play Real Baseball
(Photo: B.T. Indrelunas/Flickr) I don’t know if any of you are aware, but there was an actual A’s game today. A game that lasted for nine innings and was played by two different teams! It doesn’t...
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Spring Training Game Two: A’s Win First Game Of Spring Training
You’ll have to forgive me, I am an hour behind from almost everyone else. I decided today that I would give up social media for the day and watch the game on TV (which was obviously an hour behind...
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A’s Spring Training Game 3: Good Thing It’s Only Spring Training
Today was like yesterday, except only the exact opposite. The A’s lost to the Cleveland Indians to a final score of 14-10. Like the title says; good thing it’s only spring training. The offense did...
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A’s Spring Training Game 4: Even Cliff Pennington Homers
(Photo: Dinur/Flickr) I really can’t take credit for that title, it was a text I received from a friend about today’s game and it seemed really fitting to me. Anyway, the A’s faced the Arizona...
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A’s Spring Training Game 5: Even Jemile Weeks Homered
The funny thing about Spring Training, or baseball in general, is how quickly things turn around for a team. Yesterday my biggest concern was the lack of offense from the A’s and today that’s exactly...
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A’s Spring Training Game 6: Andersons Excels, But A’s Lose 5-3
There really isn’t a lot to say about today’s game. I don’t think the A’s necessarily played terrible today, but they didn’t play well enough (to state the obvious). The A’s lost to the Chicago Cubs...
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A’s ST Game 7: Nine Runs Not Enough
We are now finishing up the first week of spring training and the A’s finish the week with a 2-5 record. Today’s loss came against the San Francisco Giants and the final score was 13-9. The good news...
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A’s ST Game 8: Milone, Gray Stand Out In Win
It wasn’t only the pitching that helped the team defeat the Colorado Rockies today, but it was what stuck out most to me today after yesterday’s loss. The final score in today’s win was 6-3. Andrew...
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A’s Spring Training Game 9: Every Batter Takes One For The Team
Yesterday I said that the A’s had an off day today and that their next scheduled day wasn’t until Sunday. It turns out that today IS Sunday so a game was played (Imagine how surprised I was when I...
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A’s Spring Training Game 10: Offense Lifts Team Past Angels
Photo: Keith Allison With today’s 13-5 win over the Los Angels Angels of Anaheim the A’s are sitting on a 5-5 record this spring. This is the first time since game two that the A’s are at .500 and they...
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A’s Spring Training Games 11 & 11 1/2: One Loss, One Win
I will get the bad news over with first: the A’s lost a game today. Along with everyone else in the Cactus League, the A’s were not able to beat the Kansas City Royals. The Royals scored four runs in...
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A’s Spring Training Game 12: Tom Milone Pitches 3 Scoreless Innings In Win
THE A’S ARE BACK AT .500!! It’s still spring training and the A’s are still playing games that don’t matter, but they do have a Cactus League Championship title to defend. This win comes against...
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A’s Baseball: Fantasy Edition II
A year ago today I did my first Fantasy Baseball post and I recommended that you draft six A’s players for your team. I actually did pretty well, I think, as 4.5 of the players I told you to draft...
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A’s ST Game 14: Anderson Leaves With Back Strain In A’s Win
I had posted a regular recap, but computers do things like delete posts before they can be published. So here’s the short version of today’s game: The A’s beat the Arizona Diamondbacks by the final...
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A’s Opening Day Predictions
After a three week long hiatus I am back and here with my A’s (and AL West predictions). I am really bad at this, as you learned last year when I predicted the A’s to finish third with a 77-85 season...
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A’s Split Series With The Mariners
The A’s won today’s game, splitting the series with the Seattle Mariners. I missed recapping the first three games, but I had a couple of quick things to say after watching the first four games of the...
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Straily LooKKKKKKKKKKKs Sharp In A’s Win
Dan Straily made his season debut tonight, facing the Houston Astros for the first time in his Major League career. This was the first time the A’s have faced the Houston Astros since they joined the...
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Small Ball Helps A’s Defeat Houston Astros
With today’s 6-3 win over the Astros, the A’s are now on a four game winning streak, two games over .500 and hold sole possession of first place in the American League West. I know, I know…it’s only...
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A’s Sweep Astros, Reddick Exits Game With Arm Injury
Bad news first: Josh Reddick had to be pulled from the game in the fifth inning after slamming his arm into the wall going after a foul ball. As of right now we don’t have any idea how serious the...
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