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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
John Sickels has an interesting interview with Billy Beane on Minor League Ball. Sounds like Plan A is to get Chris Carter more time in the outfield (probably left) and keep Daric Barton at first. As for Brett Wallace, the A's want his big (though not Pandaesque) body at third. Sickels: It...
Minor League Ball (Free subscription) | yesterday
More photos » by Eric Risberg - AP In this Feb. 16, 2009 file photo, Oakland Athletics owner Lew Wolff, left, and general manager Billy Beane, center, talk with pitcher Brad Ziegler, right, during spring training baseball in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) Browse more photos » I spoke with Oakland GM Billy Beane this morning. Here is a transcript of the interview. JOHN SICKELS: Billy,...
Over the Monster (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
More photos » by Elise Amendola - AP 3 months ago: Boston Red Sox' David Ortiz stretches on the field prior to a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics at Fenway Park in Boston Thursday, July 30, 2009. Ortiz and Manny Ramirez were among the more than 100 Major League Baseball players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, according to a report in The New York Times....
Fanster - All Sports. All Phoenix. (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Cubs have released the Spring Training schedule, which includes a total of 35 games, 15 at HoHoKam Park, 18 road games in Arizona and 2 against the White Sox in Las Vegas.Games of note - The Cubs will play the White Sox five times but only once in ...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
With Billy Beane indicating the A's are unlikely to go after major free agents , the grow-your-own-talent system will apparently hold sway in 2010. To sign a couple free agents and have three or four press conferences during the winter doesn't get it done. We're going to be disciplined. ...
MLB (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Beane looking to go young in offseason
MLB (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A's Lieppman wins 'Chief' Bender Award
SI.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- General manager Billy Beane is committed to a youth movement for his small-market Oakland Athletics, even if the payoff takes time.
MLB (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Patience pays off in honors for Bailey
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane sees Andrew Bailey's rookie of the year award as reinforcement that a youth movement is the way to go.
Rocky Mount Telegram - Business (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine's economic development department has a new acting commissioner to take...
Lone Star Ball (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
There's a writer in Chicago who is throwing a tantrum over Gordon Beckham not getting more support for the Rookie of the Year Award. Some key excerpts: Granted, the writers got it right by electing Oakland Athletics closer Andrew Bailey the 2009 AL Rookie of the Year. Bailey had a phenomenal year, start to finish and deserved the honor. But they flubbed by giving Beckham zero first-place votes and...
MLB Trade Rumors (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Yesterday we heard that the Angels were interested in free agent outfielder Matt Holliday, but GM Tony Reagins spoke to Mike DiGiovanna of The LA Times and shot down that rumor. "He's a talented player," Reagins said of Holliday, who hit .313 with 24 home runs and 109 runs batted in for the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals in 2009 and could command a deal in excess of $100 million....
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
A's closer Andrew Bailey was driving back from his morning workout Monday, chatting with one of his agents on the phone, when a call came in on the other line, a blocked number. Bailey picked up, thinking it was his mother, Lori, calling from her workplace....
MLB (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Bailey captures AL rookie award
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