Oakland Athletics Rumors & News

Your picks for your favorite Oakland A’s of all time

San Francisco Chronicle — Last week, we asked you to vote for your favorite Oakland Athletic of all time. There were lots of notable choices but your favorite won in a landslide — over 1,000 of the 2,565 votes were for the eventual winner. We also included five honorable mentions that you brought up in the comments. But whether your favorite made the top 10 or not, all A’s fans can agree on one thing: There are few franchises in Major League Baseball that can boast the number of bona fide legends that the A’s can.

Oakland A's beat Texas Rangers 6-2

San Jose Mercury News — The A's Jarrod Parker outpitches Rangers ace Yu Darvish, who gives up home runs to Brandon Moss and John Jaso in a 6-2 Oakland win.

Texas Rangers infielder Ian Kinsler stitched up, back on field

Oakland Tribune — Kinsler got three stitches on the left side of his jaw after sliding into home in the bottom of the third. His helmet came off his head and his face slammed into the mask of A's catcher John Jaso.

Oakland A's beat Texas Rangers 6-2

Oakland Tribune — Oakland starter Jarrod Parker ran his record to 4-0 in his last five starts, allowing Texas just three hits in seven innings in clearing the path in Rangers Ballpark for a 6-2 A's win Tuesday.

Purdy: San Jose takes big swing at Major League Baseball

Oakland Tribune — After waiting four years for Commissioner Bud Selig to rule on territorial right issue with San Francisco Giants, city of San Jose files anti-trust suit against MLB

San Jose sues MLB over stalled Oakland A's move

Oakland Tribune — San Jose city officials approved a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Major League Baseball's antitrust exemption, arguing that assigning the city to the San Francisco Giants who are refusing to allow the Oakland A's to build a downtown ballpark is unlawful restraint of trade.

Oakland A's fall to Texas Rangers 8-7 in series opener

Oakland Tribune — The Texas Rangers broke a six-game losing streak, beating up on Oakland starter Dan Straily and the A's bullpen en route to an 8-7 win in the first of a four-game series between the top two teams in the American League West.

A’s intrigued by San Jose lawsuit, but not impacted

Inside the A's | Oakland Tribune — Half a continent away, the A’s woke up Tuesday to the news of the City of San Jose filing an anti-trust lawsuit against Major League Baseball over the Bay Area baseball stadium situation. Many of them were interested, a few of them even intrigued. But none of the players interviewed thought it would have any [...]

Texas heat keeps Yoenis Cespedes in DH role

Oakland Tribune — Yoenis Cespedes has sore hamstring and Oakland A's don't want him to risk another injury if he gets dehydrated in hot Texas sun.

Oakland A's owner Lew Wolff says Coliseum sewage mess not unusual

San Jose Mercury News — Lew Wolff says Coliseum will be ready for Athletics' next homestand

Angel Hernandez, Adam Rosales meet again

Inside the A's | Oakland Tribune — For the first time since that series in Cleveland when Adam Rosales hit the homer that wasn’t, the A’s are meeting up with Angel Hernandez again. Hernandez, who ruled that Rosales’ fly ball to left-center field in Progressive Field was a double rather than the home run that the video replay clearly showed it to [...]

Game 72 wrapup: A’s show late fight behind Lowrie in loss, but seven runs should have been enough

Inside the A's | Oakland Tribune — Jed Lowrie collected one of the most difficult walks of his career in the ninth inning Monday. Squared off with the Rangers’ Joe Nathan with a man on second, Lowrie went to 1-2 quickly, then had to fight his way back to get a walk off Nathan, who had only walked eight men all year. [...]

Have the A’s gotten into heads of Rangers, Darvish?

Inside the A's | Oakland Tribune — Have the Oakland A’s gotten into the heads of the Texas Rangers? Well, maybe. It’s one thing that the A’s took the American League West by storm last year, winning six of the last seven games against the Rangers to win the West title by one game. It’s another that the A’s were seven games [...]

Oakland A's: Angel Hernandez works an A's game for first time since blown call in Cleveland

San Jose Mercury News — Adam Rosales of the Oakland A's says he's moved on from blown call in Cleveland, when Angel Hernandez's umpiring crew robbed him of a home run.

Purdy: Mr. Selig, this Oakland Coliseum situation reeks

San Jose Mercury News — The derelict 47-year-old structure that houses the A's and Raiders needs baseball's commissioner to take his head out of the sand.

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