Oakland’s system lacks depth and lost plenty of talent after a busy offseason filled with trades.
Trading Billy keeps trading, swapping his newly acquired shortstop for a high-leverage reliever.
How Adam Dunn’s career helped the world appreciate three true outcomes, and how an encounter during Dunn’s worst season helped the author appreciate Dunn’s patience.
The A’s switch things up and trade youth for a star.
After trading away both of its catchers in separate deals, San Diego reloaded by acquiring one who can really hit.
Exploring the league’s curveballs, we find two excellent breakers that changed dramatically last year–though in surprising ways.
Oakland is tearing down a team that had the best run differential in baseball last year. Is this consistent with last summer’s trades?
Yet another AL team plucks a middle-of-the-order hitter from Oakland.
With whom will the A’s next blockbuster be? And one team drops out of the Headley chase.
Billy Beane trades another star, though the package he got in return is different than we’re used to. Plus: Prospect breakdowns and fantasy implications.
The A’s are low on studs but have plenty of potentially useful fantasy role players.
Last week, we found something odd about the way the league started pitching a slumping Oakland. This week, we might have found the reason.
What does it mean that the league suddenly shifted its pitch selection just as the A’s suddenly shifted into a full-scale meltdown?
What was that, and can we have some more?
The A’s stumbled into the postseason, but they may have the edge on the hill and in the dugout against the Royals.
Would you rather have the best GM or the best prospect for the future of your franchise? And more importantly, how would you determine the answer?
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