William Lamar Beane

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: March 29, 1962 in Orlando, FL
High Schools: Mount Carmel HS (San Diego, CA), Mount Carmel HS (Rancho Bernardo, CA)
Drafted by the New York Mets in the 1st round (23rd pick) of the 1980 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 13, 1984 (Age 22)   vs. PIT 2 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Teams (by GP): Twins/Athletics/Mets/Tigers 1984-1989

Final Game: October 1, 1989 (Age 27)   vs. KCR 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
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• 5/20 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Dixon’s Picks: Waiver Wire Additions for the Week of May 20Another week, another set of Dixon’s Picks. This is something of an odd week in that most of the good More......
• 5/20 Baseballhotcorner.com: Michael Choice – Learn To “Bernie Lean”: Start believing the hype on Oakland A’s top prospect center fielder, Michael Choice.  Currently batting .284, with 8 HRs,...
• 5/17 MetsToday.com: Mets Game 38: Win Over Cardinals: Mets 5 Cardinals 2 Mets win on getaway day to escape a sweep in St. Louis. Mets Game Notes Caveat: I didn’t watch the entire...
• 5/14 Mets360.com: Terry Collins and platoon players: Creative and new ideas and solutions often seem to come along as a result of limitations.  Limitations are what forced Billy...
• 5/13 PaulLebowitz.com: Billy Beane As Doctor Doom: It’s amazing how Billy Beane’s “genius” fluctuates based the Athletics’ record. While the A’s were consistently losing...
• 5/11 Baseball With Matt: A Interview with Mets GM Sandy Alderson LIVE!!!!! 5/11/13: Hey baseball fans!I have another interview for you! It is with Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson! I actually got to interview...
• 5/10 PaulLebowitz.com: Bo Porter’s Secret History: Bo Porter makes up a new rule, a precedent for that rule and gets away with it. You have to admire it. Last night, in the top...
• 5/10 Halo Hangout: It’s Official – The Angels Now Have Something in Common with The Los Angeles Lakers: Los Angeles sports teams have a lot in common these days.  Their bloated payrolls and lack of performance appear downright contagious....
• 5/8 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Barton Up; Reddick DL’d; Noberto Out: The A’s will call up Daric Barton as they place Josh Reddick on the disabled list with a wrist injury stemming from his...
• 5/7 BoSox Injection: The Red Sox and the Upcoming First-Year Player Draft.: With just under a month until the Major League Baseball draft, I thought it was time to look at who the Red Sox could, would and...
• 5/7 Fire Brand of the American League: In Which Pedroia is Defended Because of Gritty, Gutty Writers Love: Ladies and gents, it is time for the highlight of your week: the time that you realize that it is Nick Cafardo watching the Red...
• 5/6 PaulLebowitz.com: The Astros Reality Is Beginning To Sink In: We’ve come a long way in a month. On opening night in Texas, the Astros beat up on the Rangers 8-2. Following the preseason...
• 5/6 Replacement Level Red Sox Blog: Andrew Bailey to DL, Craig Breslow Recalled: Gordon Edes reports that after a few days of unhelpful stalling, the Red Sox have moved Andrew Bailey to the 15-day DL. The move...
• 5/5 Swingin' A's: Solving the Athletics Problems Internally: The Oakland Athletics stormed out of the gates to open the 2013 season, leading the pack in the American League with a 12-4 record....
• 5/2 MLBTradeRumors: West Notes: Beane, Padres, Mattingly: Athletics GM Billy Beane is in favor of recognizing teams with the best regular-season records, NBC Sports' Joe Posnanski reports....
• 5/1 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Casper Wells Dealt to the White Sox: Casper Wells has been traded to the Chicago White Sox for cash considerations. Apparently upon acquiring him Billy Beane warned...

• 4/30 Swingin' A's: April Stand-Outs: Jed Lowrie:   Jed Lowrie was brought to Oakland to serve as a super-utility infielder. The A’s were not asking anymore of the oft-injured...
• 4/30 Swingin' A's: How Things Have Changed: A’s Offense Is Carrying Team: The A’s are going to go as far as their young pitching takes them. That statement rang true in the early goings of spring...
• 4/30 Swingin' A's: 19th Inning Repercussions Part 2: Depletion: The A’s exciting win last night was definitely a morale booster especially after the last week and a half of sweeps and near...
• 4/30 Sultan of Squat: April MLB breakdown (Accoutability Week 4) Part 1: We are almost at the end of the first month of the season. Each week, I have reviewed how each team has fared compared to my predictions....
• 4/29 Swingin' A's: Recent Struggles Highlight Bigger Problem in Oakland: The A’s avoided a four game sweep at the hands of the Baltimore Orioles Sunday by tying the game in the ninth inning courtesy...
• 4/29 mlbreports.com : Oakland Athletics Payroll In 2013: A’s Organizational Rosters + Depth Charts – (MLB + MiLB): Like us on Facebook here Monday, Apr.29/2013 By Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Analyst/Website Owner): and welcome Jeff Kleiner (Salary,...
• 4/25 PaulLebowitz.com: Beane and Zduriencik: Mirror Images: Who would play Jack Zduriencik in the movie version of the Mariners rise if it were to occur and one were to be made? I’m thinking...
• 4/19 Crashburn Alley: Crash Bag, Vol. 50: I Will Judge You For Misusing Heir Apparent: I was going to write last week that the success of the Phillies on a given night seemed to depend on whether or not I was watching,...
• 4/18 Swingin' A's: At 12-4, the Athletics Are Set Up For Success: I have to say I’ve been surprised at how hot the Oakland Athletics have been in the early portion of the season.  With...
• 4/15 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Early Season Fantasy Baseball Sleepers: A.J. Griffin: If your understanding of the A’s organization under Billy Beane goes beyond the movie Moneyball, you know that they consistently...
• 4/12 mlbreports.com : Athletics 8 Game Win Streak Is Nothing New To Pattern Formed Since Last Year: Like us on Facebook here Friday, Apr.12/2013 By Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Analyst/Website Owner): Hands up.. How many people...
• 4/11 Swingin' A's: The Perception of Roster Depth: In the words of the late, great Douglas Adams: Don’t Panic. During the course of a 162 game season, it’s a known certainty...
• 4/8 Bronx Baseball Daily: Yankees and Joba have one more year to get it right: Joba Chamberlain looked lost. That much was clear in his outing on Saturday in the Yankees’ 8-4 loss to the Tigers. Pitch...
• 4/6 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Trade for Vogt and DFA Otero: Dan Otero joins Josh Stinson in the “barely A’s, does it even really count?” category (assuming he clears waivers)...
• 4/5 mlbreports.com : Nate Freiman: Beane Finds Yet Another Hidden Gem… And The A’s Next 1st Baseman: Like us on Facebook here Friday April 5th, 2013 Jonathan Hacohen  (Lead Baseball Columnist, Oakland A’s Correspondent...
• 4/4 Climbing Tal's Hill: Astros Acquire Blackley From A’s: With the bullpen struggling through three games, Jeff Luhnow went to get help from his new division mates. Since Luhnow has decided...
• 4/3 PaulLebowitz.com: Robinson Cano Puts His Money Where His Heart Is: The initial reaction to the splashy headline that Yankees’ second baseman Robinson Cano fired agent Scott Boras and replaced...
• 4/2 Phillies Nation: Behind Revere, New-Look Lineup Shows Patience: For a second, forget about Chase Utley spraying line drives all over (and out of) Turner Field last night.  It was a satisfying...
• 4/1 Swingin' A's: Expanded View: Season Prediction: Finally it has arrived. The sun is rising as high as the expectations thrust upon a team who don green and gold. Yes. Baseball...
• 4/1 Motor City Bengals: Breaking Tigers Trade: April’s opening sees a startlingly bold move by Dave Dombrowski, as the Detroit Tigers GM has traded Rick Porcello, Andy Dirks,...
• 4/1 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Update from San Francisco: March 29/Recap: A’s @ Giants Game 32: A’s lost 3-1 to Barry Zito and the Giants tonight at AT&T Park. Along with the slew of roster moves today with guys...

• 3/29 Swingin' A's: Josh Donaldson: A Lone Ranger: As I mentioned yesterday the A’s depth has provided some interesting roster decisions so far this spring. Eric Sogard will potentially...
• 3/27 Swingin' A's: A Familiar Face In An Unfamiliar Role: GM Billy Beane spent this offseason acquiring depth for a team who looks poised to make another run at October baseball. Beane...
• 3/27 WasWatching: Wait, Billy Beane Made This List?: Non-pitchers with at least 50 PA in a season where their batting average was greater than their on-base average: Rk Player WAR/pos...
• 3/27 Swingin' A's: If I Were Billy Beane…Or How the 25-Man Roster Will Be vs. Should Be: Admit it, it’s one of your favorite things to do.  You study the team you love, pick it apart piece by piece, and come...
• 3/27 Swingin' A's: Murky Middle Infield Waters Become a Little Clearer for the Athletics: It’s been an extremely hot topic throughout the Athletics camp in Phoenix.  We’ve certainly had no shortage of discussions...
• 3/26 Mets Merized: The Great Divide: Where We Are Going and Where We Are: If there’s one thing I can say about Mets fans if I were to use Twitter as the barometer, you could slice the entire fan...
• 3/25 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Update from PHX: March 23/Recap: A’s @ Giants Game 26: The A’s played their cross-bay rival Giants today in Scottsdale and won 12-5. Josh Reddick is not in today’s lineup...
• 3/24 mlbreports.com : Oakland A’s Player Roster in 2013: State Of The Union Part 2: The Pitchers: Like us on Facebook here Sunday, Mar.24/2013 Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Analyst/Website Owner): Billy Beane has always recycled...
• 3/24 Marlin Maniac: 2013 MLB Season Preview: Who Will Surprise The Baseball World?: As the past couple of days have passed, the madness is now fully underway. No, I’m not talking about the NCAA March Madness...
• 3/23 Jays Journal: The History of Our Home Openers: 2002: It was finally here. The regime that would erase the horrible memories of Gord Ash’s tenure. Sure there were winning seasons...
• 3/21 PaulLebowitz.com: Keys to 2013: Oakland Athletics: Starting Pitching Key: Jarrod Parker With the departure of Brandon McCarthy and the questionable status of Bartolo Colon (he’s...
• 3/21 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Update from PHX: March 19/Recap: A’s @ Dodgers Game 23: A’s crossed town to go to Camelback Ranch where they fell to the Dodgers 7-1. The World Baseball Classic ended today with...
• 3/20 Monkey with a Halo: The forgotten Angels: Vernon Wells.: Hi. I’m Jeremy Elwood. Let me introduce myself; I’m a new writer to this site, I’m a huge Angels Fan,...
• 3/19 Mets Merized: The Problem With the Aggregate Approach to Offense: One of my favorite sci-fi flicks is Star Trek: First Contact. The first 20 minutes are some of the greatest deep-space action...
• 3/19 Fire Brand of the American League: Nick Cafardo Says Nice Things About Baseball Managers!: Timothy Brooks, on the other hand, writes mean things about MLB managers that are not named Terry Francona from his mother's basement....
• 3/18 Marlin Maniac: Should the Miami Marlins Explore the Trade Market for Closer Steve Cishek?: The Miami Marlins apparently have a hot commodity and other teams around baseball want to trade for it. No, we are not talking...
• 3/15 Swingin' A's: Waiting for Derek Norris:   Derek Norris is a work in progress. And at all of 24 years old that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Now don’t...
• 3/13 Rising Apple: 2013 Season Preview: AL West: This is the third piece in a week-long series in which the staff of Rising Apple makes their predictions for each of the six...
• 3/12 PaulLebowitz.com: Indiana Cashman And The Search For Fossils: When asked about the Yankees putting out a feeler for Chipper Jones, Derek Jeter wondered, in his typical dark deadpan sense of...
• 3/11 Swingin' A's: A Very Bad Start for Brett Anderson: Eight pitches, just eight pitches into Sunday afternoon’s Cactus League contest between the Oakland Athletics and the Arizona...
• 3/9 Swingin' A's: Crafting the 2013 Athletics and the Work Still to Be Done: It seems somewhat crazy to consider the notion that the Athletics are in need of more depth, Billy Beane has spent the entire...
• 3/8 Indians Baseball Insider: Why Jason Giambi?:  What is Jason Giambi doing here? Why would the Indians sign the aging first baseman/designated hitter to a minor...
• 3/8 mlbreports.com : Yoenis Cespedes: While Cuba Misses Their Star in the 2013 WBC- the A’s Slugger Looks to be an A.L. MVP Candidate: Like us on Facebook here Friday March 8th, 2013 Jonathan Hacohen  (Lead Baseball Columnist, Oakland A’s Correspondent...
• 3/7 Swingin' A's: Three Reasons Why The A’s Can’t Trust Brandon Moss: Last year the A’s clinched the AL West in part because of their strong pitching depth, but also because their manager Bob...
• 3/6 Swingin' A's: Athletics Roster Reality Check: We are now officially in the thick of the Cactus League schedule.  After scuffling the first week, the Athletics have started...

• 2/28 Swingin' A's: Final Chance: Daric Barton’s Struggle to Return to Oakland: Earlier today Daric Barton spoke to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle today about a variety of topics, but one quote...
• 2/28 Swingin' A's: Ranking The AL West Outfields: The AL West figures to be a three team race between the Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Angels, and Oakland A’s in 2013. The...
• 2/28 Swingin' A's: 3 Players Who Will Help Lead The A’s In 2013: There is no question about it, the Oakland A’s will be a young team in 2013. The youthful A’s charged into the post-season...
• 2/27 Swingin' A's: Is the A’s Rotation Depth Lacking?: The A’s seem deep at nearly every position going into this 2013 season. They have four starting caliber centerfielders, a multitude...
• 2/25 Reviewing the Brew: Sabermetrics: Corey Hart And The ‘Clutch’ Factor: If you don’t know what sabermetrics is, read “Moneyball”, a fantastic book by Michael Lewis about the renowned...
• 2/24 Baseball Jerks: Sapphire Tom’s Fantasy Pawn $ Exchange: 2013 Preview: Before the baseball season starts, and you begin scrambling to make up for your injured and inadequate players, come on down to...
• 2/24 Swingin' A's: Yoenis Cespedes and the Stuff of Legend: It’s been a while since I’ve written about the simple fact that the sky is not nearly high enough for the limit to...
• 2/24 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: AL Preview: Pacific Coast Edition: With Spring Training underway throughout baseball, we will take a look at the offseason moves made by the other American League...
• 2/22 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Free Agent Target: Kyle Lohse: So I said I wouldn’t do anymore “Free Agent Target” pieces when Billy Beane said the roster was set. But why...
• 2/21 MLB Dirt: AL West Players To Watch: Dan Marino continues his trek through each division in the major leagues and giving you one player he thinks is the: Rookie to...
• 2/20 Swingin' A's: Settled Dust: Jed Lowrie Reaction: Now that the dust has settled around the Jed Lowrie trade we can reflect and begin to see what the A’s actually received in...
• 2/20 Kings of Kauffman: Dayton Moore’s Sense of Time: Dayton Moore is ahead of schedule, according to, well, Dayton Moore. “I’m amazed that it’s happened this quickly,”...
• 2/18 Swingin' A's: The Two Headed Monster v2.0?: As the first full team workouts got underway in Phoenix on Friday, not much came out in the way of surprises from Athletics camp....
• 2/15 Swingin' A's: 3 Reasons Why The A’s Will Succeed In 2013: The A’s have spent the off-season retooling and revamping their roster in an effort to defend their AL West crown. General...
• 2/14 Swingin' A's: My Athletics Valentine: Brandon Moss: I’ll be the first to admit that my affection for Brandon Moss strays far from the ranks of rationality.  He spent most...
• 2/13 Swingin' A's: 2013 State of the Athletics Address: It seemed **** that with President Obama delivering his annual State of the Union address this evening, I would take the opportunity...
• 2/12 Swingin' A's: Why This Spring Will Be Different: Spring training his finally here and the A’s are looking forward to another trip into the post-season. Yes, you read that...
• 2/12 Baseball Jerks: Oakland Athletics 2013 Preview: The Oakland Athletics staged a coup last year, beating out powerhouses like the Rangers and Angels on the strength of a pitching...
• 2/11 Swingin' A's: Hideki Okajima May Be Headed to Oakland: If Susan Slusser is correct, it appears Hideki Okajima is in fact nearing a deal to join the Oakland Athletics bullpen.  The...
• 2/9 Climbing Tal's Hill: The Jed Lowrie trade: Further Analysis: Now that the dust has had time to settle let’s take a closer look at the trade that sent Jed Lowrie and Fernando Rodriguez...
• 2/7 Swingin' A's: Will We See Daric Barton In 2013?: Daric Barton has had quite the interesting career. The former highly regarded prospect, Barton, 27, is at a career crossroads....
• 2/7 Swingin' A's: A’s In 2013: The Value In Depth: It’s not easy being on top of an ultra-competitive division in pro baseball. The A’s know this and their fearless...
• 2/6 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Why Aren’t the A’s Offering Dallas Braden a Contract?: Two words: Organizational depth Two more words: Incentive laden There are no reasons for the A’s not to sign Dallas Braden...
• 2/5 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Swing Five-Player Swap and Land Lowrie: The A’s made a significant trade today, dealing first baseman Chris Carter and prospects Brad Pea**** and Max Stassi to...
• 2/5 StanGraphs: Trade: A’s Add Jed Lowrie in Trade With Astros: The A’s have reemerged as a serious contender in the AL West, and ever since they realized they were for real again the...
• 2/5 Baseball Jerks: Jed Lowrie Joins Oakland A’s in Five-Player Trade: Billy Beane continues to stick to the game plan that has made him a successful small-market general manager. The Oakland Athletics...
• 2/5 A's Farm: A’s Swap Spare Parts For Second Shortstop!: As we pointed out in our analysis of the John Jaso trade just recently, the A’s are clearly in “WIN NOW” mode. And the team...
• 2/5 Fire Brand of the American League: Cafardo Mail Bag Fun!: I did it for you. Last week a wrote a simple, insipid piece about the joys of Spring Training in Florida (look me up if you make...
• 2/4 MLB Dirt: A’s Trade Former Top Prospects for Jed Lowrie: The Oakland Athletics, in a  move to bolster their major league roster, acquired shortstop Jed Lowrie and right-handed reliever...
• 2/4 Swingin' A's: Better Jed Than Dead: A’s Get Lowrie for Carter, Pea**** Stassi in 5 Player Deal: Well this came out of nowhere.  Just when we all thought the roster was more or less set, the Athletics announced this afternoon...
• 2/2 PaulLebowitz.com: Francona: The Red Sox Years by Terry Francona and Dan Shaughnessy—Book Review: It’s a fine line between revenge and clarification. In his new book detailing the eight years he spent as manager of the Boston...
• 2/1 Obstructed View: Interview with Tom Tango (aka tangotiger): As most of you probably know, Tom Tango now exclusively consults with the Cubs. This is incredible news: Tom Tango, also knows...
• 2/1 Crashburn Alley: Crash Bag, Vol. 39: 10 Years in Undignified Retreat: Not much to say by way of introduction this week. Only, I suppose, that we ought to listen to more “Waltzing Matilda.”...
• 2/1 Swingin' A's: Could the A’s add Jed Lowrie?: The A’s biggest need this offseason, a shortstop to replace Stephen Drew and Cliff Pennington, was filled when GM Billy Beane...
• 2/1 Swingin' A's: Red Sox Old Assumptions… Meet the New Athletics: There’s quite a history of the Athletics trading away players at the peak of their value, every single A’s fan knows...

• 1/31 Baseball News Source: Oakland A’s: How Valuable is Yoenis Cespedes?: Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics have long been known for acquiring undervalued players. Some recent examples of this are...
• 1/31 A's Farm: Beane And Melvin On A’s Top Prospects, Who’ll Play Second Base, And The Team’s Biggest Challenge In 2013: Over the past few days, we’ve brought you coverage of the bloggers-only press conference with various members of the A’s staff...
• 1/31 Swingin' A's: Picking the Brain of Assistant GM David Forst: The final installment of our chances to chat with members of the A’s organization welcomes in the assistant to Billy Beane,...
• 1/30 Swingin' A's: Michael’s Choice: Stardom or Struggles: As we continue to look at the Oakland Athletics representatives in the Seedlings to Stars top 115 prospects in baseball, we look...
• 1/29 The Beanball: How Valuable is Yoenis Cespedes?: Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics have long been known for acquiring undervalued players. Some recent examples of this are...
• 1/29 Swingin' A's: Familiar Faces in New Places: For purely nostalgic reasons, I thought it was pertinent to bring focus to a contingent of transactions that have occurred recently...
• 1/29 Swingin' A's: Roster Review Series: Part 4: This will be a recurring series outlining the different aspects of the A’s roster. I will preview what the outfield, infield,...
• 1/27 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Looked Into Lowrie: Great minds think alike? I was hoping that the A’s would try to acquire Houston’s Jed Lowrie and it turns out they...
• 1/27 Venom Strikes: Crazy Like A Fox or Just Plain Crazy? Towers Era Will be Defined By Upton Trade: When Arizona General Manager Kevin Towers decided that Justin Upton was no longer part of his future plans, he had to know that...
• 1/26 Swingin' A's: The Lasting Impact of George Kottaras: The Kansas City announced today that they had claimed catcher George Kottaras off waivers from the Oakland Athletics after he...
• 1/25 Swingin' A's: Roster Review Series: Part 3: This will be a recurring series outlining the different aspects of the A’s roster. I will preview what the outfield, infield,...
• 1/24 Swingin' A's: Roster Review Series: Part 1: This will be a recurring series outlining the different aspects of the A’s roster. I will preview what the outfield, infield,...
• 1/23 Swingin' A's: Miles Ahead of the Pack: The second member of the Athletics organization to find himself on the top 115 prospects list over at Seedlings to Stars is 1B/3B...
• 1/22 Swingin' A's: What the John Jaso Addition Means: Last week the A’s acquired catcher John Jaso from the Mariners in a three team trade. The Mariners received first basemen/outfielder...
• 1/22 That Ball's Outta Here: Phillies Should Make An Offer For Chris Young: Look there, under that rock! It’s another outfielder possibility! Someone kill it, quick!!! As the Phillies continue their...
• 1/21 Full Spectrum Baseball: Funnyball: When Jack Zduriencik completed the deal that landed the Mariners Michael Morse he was not applauded for his efforts. In fact,...
• 1/20 MLBTradeRumors: Cafardo On Red Sox, A's, Mariners, Stanton, Bourn: Part of the Red Sox's internal evaluation has been trying to figure out why they haven't done better on trades, writes Nick Cafardo...
• 1/20 mlbreports.com : Billy Beane Found His Catcher in Seattle: John Jaso is Ready to Lead the A’s Back to the Playoffs: Like us on Facebook here Sunday January 20th, 2013 Jonathan Hacohen  (Lead Baseball Columnist, Oakland A’s Correspondent...
• 1/18 StanGraphs: Trade: Mariners Add Michael Morse, May Hit Home Run in 2013 Now: Ever since Adam LaRoche re-signed with the Nationals, it’s been pretty clear that Michael Morse was the odd man out in Washington....
• 1/18 Kings of Kauffman: Market Fresh: George Kottaras: The Royals seem content with their roster at this point in the offseason, but I’m sure they’re kicking ideas around...
• 1/17 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball 2013: Oakland A’s Hitting & Pitching Projections: Oakland Athletics — Predicted Finish: Second Place, AL West Well last season, the A’s out-performed anyone’s wildest...
• 1/17 The Flagrant Fan: John Jaso's plate discipline improves the Athletics: The Oakland Athletics won the American League West last season despite a virtual black hole on offense from the catching position....
• 1/17 Swingin' A's: Say It Ain’t Jaso: A’s Get Catcher in Deal For Youngster Cole in 3-Way Deal: It actually is Jaso, John to be exact.  In a rather surprising move today the A’s traded young hurler A.J. Cole back to...
• 1/17 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Acquire Jaso in Three-Way Trade With M’s and Nats: The A’s have acquired catcher John Jaso as a part of a three-team trade with the Seattle Mariners and Washington Nationals....
• 1/16 Mets Merized: Could Coco Crisp Solve Mets Center Field Problem?: As the Mets continue to ponder their outfield situation, one thing is apparent: they still need a right-handed bat. The free agency...
• 1/14 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Extend Bob Melvin for 2015 and 2016: American League West Oakland Athletics skipper Bob Melvin has earned himself an extension. Following a 94 win division championship...
• 1/14 Baseball Musings: Melvining the Manager: The Athletics extended the contract of manager Bob Melvin: Athletics manager Bob Melvin has received a two-year contract extension...
• 1/14 Swingin' A's: A’s Tack On 2 More Years of BoMel: It seems **** since I just wrote about leadership on the Athletics.  I was talking about within the players, but no one is more...
• 1/13 Nolan Writin': A Review Of “Moneyball”: The film Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, came out in 2011. The current year is 2013. That means I’ve been...
• 1/13 mlbreports.com : Bartolo Colon: Ready For One More “BIG” Season in Oakland: Like us on Facebook here Sunday January 13th, 2013 Jonathan Hacohen  (Lead Baseball Columnist, Oakland A’s Correspondent...
• 1/10 PaulLebowitz.com: And Hal Was Supposed to be the Sane Steinbrenner Son: Hal Steinbrenner spoke about the state of the Yankees today. Brian Costa has a recap of his comments in their entirety. It finally...
• 1/8 Rum Bunter: Pittsburgh Pirates Countdown to Spring Training: Vin Mazzaro…Really?: 1.  His full name is Vincent Michael Mazzaro 2.  Vin Mazzaro Needs A Fan Club President. 3.  Vin Mazzaro holds a Kansas City...
• 1/6 Swingin' A's: Much Ado About Javier Vazquez: It’s been thought that the strength of the Oakland Athletics is it’s starting rotation, a group of young and talented...

• 12/31 Swingin' A's: 2013 New YeAr’s Resolutions: Win The Whole Frickin’ Thing: There really isn’t a more lofty goal than that.  And it’s hardly something you can have the nerve to expect unless...
• 12/31 Swingin' A's: Finding Space For Chris Carter: It’s been a rocky road for the big 1st baseman Chris Carter over the years, he always seemed to have major power potential,...
• 12/30 mlbreports.com : Carlos Gonzalez: Committing Superstar Fraud in Colorado: Like us on Facebook here Sunday December 30th, 2012 Jonathan Hacohen  (Baseball Writer and Website Founder):   Today I tackle...
• 12/27 Tyler's Think Tank: Red Sox trade for Hanrahan: After completing a flurry of moves earlier in the month, the Boston Red Sox bolstered their bullpen by trading for All-Star...
• 12/27 Swingin' A's: The Lost Way of an Old Friend: Andrew Bailey: All three of the big trades Billy Beane executed during last offseason have been examined under the sharpest focus until our eyes...
• 12/26 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Swisher Fits Perfectly in Cleveland: By Mike Brandyberry Since Nick Swisher agreed to his four-year, $56 million contract on Sunday, baseball analysts and fans have...
• 12/24 Redbird Rants: Baseball by the Numbers—On Base Percentage (OBP) and Weighted On Base Average (wOBA): This is my second installment of the series on baseball statistics.  This post will cover two stats which measure the value of...
• 12/23 Baseball News Source: A’s Reach Agreement with SS Hiroyuki Nakajima: Two Years $6.5 Million: Small-market teams have to seek small-market solutions to fill voids Oakland A’s reached into the international market to...
• 12/22 The Flagrant Fan: Why we root for guys like Jeremy Bonderman: The Seattle Mariners took a flier yesterday and signed Jeremy Bonderman to a minor league contract. While of itself, this is...
• 12/22 Swingin' A's: Santa’s Oakland A’s Naughty or Nice List: Volume 3: Well as you probably figured out by now, we all survived the apocalypse that was supposed to wipe us all from existence today,...
• 12/20 YankeeAnalysts.com: Yankees Finding Undervalued Pieces In Old Players: In Moneyball, Billy Beane uses a number of advanced statistics to find undervalued players on the market. His rival, the New York...
• 12/20 Swingin' A's: Rest of the Offseason Needs: The A’s made their splash this offseason by signing free agent Japanese shortstop Hiroyuki Nakajima to a two year $6.5 million...
• 12/19 Baseball News Source: A’s Reach Agreement with SS Hiroyuki Nakajima: Two Years $6.5 Million: Small-market teams have to seek small-market solutions to fill voids Oakland A’s reached into the international market to...
• 12/19 Swingin' A's: “You Can Call Me Hiro” … New SS Makes Great First Impression: “Hi Oakland, my name is Hiroyuki Nakajima, but you can call me Hiro. I am honored to be here today. Thank you very much,...
• 12/18 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Free Up 40-Man Room and Deal Cowgill: The A’s traded outfielder Collin Cowgill today to the New York Mets for MiLB infielder Jefry Marte. Cowgill who came to...
• 12/18 mlbreports.com : The Battle Of Los Angeles: Dodgers or Angels?: Tuesday December 18, 2012 Kyle Holland (MLB Reports Intern):  . 2012 was a year to remember for Los Angeles fans. Even though...
• 12/17 Swingin' A's: Drew Bolts for Beantown, A’s Turn to the Trade Market: Well, I guess the reports from Susan Slusser a couple weeks back that Stephen Drew would eventually sign a 1 year deal with a...
• 12/16 Through The Fence Baseball: 2013 MLB draft: Interview with top left-handed prospect Jonah Wesely: Jonah Wesely is a 6’-2”, 210-pound left-hander from Tracy HS in Tracy, California. He is rated as one of the top players in...
• 12/16 Swingin' A's: Throw Your Name Into the Hat, Aledmys Diaz: Last week Susan Slusser was saying that it was all but a forgone conclusion that Stephen Drew would ultimately resign with the...
• 12/13 Swingin' A's: Billy Beane’s Land of Missed Opportunities: Athletics GM Billy Beane is well known for making tough decisions, trading young players before or in their prime years when their...
• 12/11 161st and River: 5 Reasons I Hated Kevin Youkilis & 5 Reasons I Don’t Anymore: Today the Yanks acquired one of my least favorite baseball players, ever.  I hated Kevin Youkilis, but now that he will be donning...
• 12/11 Tyler's Think Tank: Youkilis a Yankee: Kevin Youkilis, one of the few remaining free agent third basemen, signed a one-year, $12 million deal with the New York Yankees...
• 12/11 Swingin' A's: Starting Rotation Fortification Necessitation?: There’s no doubt about it that the strength of the Athletics in 2012 was its starting rotation.  It was remarkable no doubt...
• 12/11 Swingin' A's: Graham Godfrey’s Lasting Impression: Just a couple days ago the A’s sent pitcher Graham Godfrey to the Boston Red Sox as the player to be named in the deal that...
• 12/10 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Royals Offered Myers for Anderson: Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports tweeted that before settling on their big deal to acquire James Shields and Wade Davis from Tampa...
• 12/9 MLBRandomFandom: Up-And-Comers: Relief Pitchers: This is the second article of MLBRandomFandom's "Up-And-Comers" series, in which we talk about players on the rise. Today: Relief...
• 12/9 PaulLebowitz.com: Zack Greinke Reverberations and Madness: Zack Greinke has reportedly agreed to terms with the Dodgers on a 6-year, $147 million contract. Let’s look at the reality and...
• 12/8 Swingin' A's: A’s Winter Trade Wish List Series Part 3: In honor of the MLB Winter Meetings that recently occurred I have decided to do a series of posts dedicated to possible trade...
• 12/8 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Oakland’s Rotation Fallout from the McCarthy Departure: It always hurts to say goodbye to a player you like and Brandon McCarthy was my favorite player on the A’s these past two...
• 12/6 Swingin' A's: One More Option: Jhonny Could Be an Ahtletic: I’ll preface this by making note of the disappointment of the day at the news that Bill King failed once again to be posthumously...
• 12/6 Call to the Pen: Oakland Showing Interest in Jhonny Peralta: The Detroit Tigers have been fielding calls on their starting shortstop, Jhonny Peralta, for the better part of the off-season....
• 12/5 Swingin' A's: A’s Winter Trade Wish List Series Part 2: In honor of the MLB Winter Meetings I have decided to do a series of posts dedicated to possible trade partners the A’s could...
• 12/4 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Green or Pea**** for Escobar?: Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com reports that the A’s have indeed discussed acquiring Yunel Escobar from the Miami Marlins...
• 12/4 Swingin' A's: Winter Meetings Report: Still In Search of a Shortstop: It’s often thought that the groundwork for deals, and not the deals themselves are the bulk of the business that takes place...
• 12/4 Swingin' A's: A’s Winter Trade Wish List Series Part 1: In honor of the MLB Winter Meetings I have decided to do a series of posts dedicated to possible trade partners the A’s could...
• 12/4 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Potential A’s and Marlins Moves and the Shortstop Situation: Billy Beane and the rest of the general managers from around baseball are all gathered at the **** Opryland in Nashville for the...
• 12/3 PaulLebowitz.com: The Yankees’ $189 Million Reality: The mandate the Yankees are under to reduce their payroll to $189 million by 2014 isn’t a capricious decision designed for ownership...
• 12/3 mlbreports.com : Braves Selling Low on Hanson and Jurrjens: Moneyball Ain’t Alive in Atlanta People: Monday December 3rd, 2012 Jonathan Hacohen:   I was thinking back this week to one of my fave articles from this past year. Being...
• 12/2 mlbreports.com : The Oakland A’s 2013 Roster Tree Part 2: The Pitchers: Sunday, Dec.02/2012 Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Writer/Website Owner): Yesterday we talked about the hitters of the Oakland Athletics...
• 12/2 Baseball Musings: Comfort Zone: Billy Beane doesn’t like dealing at the Winter Meetings: Beane has often maintained that it’s harder to make deals...
• 12/1 mlbreports.com : The Oakland A’s 2013 Roster Tree Part 1: The Hitters: Saturday, Dec.01/2012 Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Writer/Website Owner): A few months ago, our Lead Columnist/Website Founder (Jonathan...
• 12/1 Swingin' A's: Active Athletics: Transactions Aplenty on Non-Tender Day: It’s hard to know where exactly to begin regarding the day’s activity for the Athletics.  The organization saw some...
• 12/1 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Arbitration Avoidation: Barton and Rosales: The A’s signed Daric Barton to a $1.1M contract to avoid arbitration. The contract is non-guaranteed and contains $250K...

• 11/29 Swingin' A's: Pat Neshek and the A’s See Eye to Eye: As we approach the month of December many arbitration eligible players might begin to sweat a little bit as the deadline for teams...
• 11/28 Swingin' A's: A’s Find Themselves All Over the Gibby Awards: Just when you thought all the postseason awards had been handed out, the nominations for the 2012 Gibby Awards (Greatness in Baseball...
• 11/28 Swingin' A's: The Under the Radar Bullpen: Mike Ekstrom: There may be a number of you reading this who have absolutely no clue who Mike Ekstrom is.  That’s okay, I won’t...
• 11/26 Swingin' A's: The Obligatory Call to Acquire Giancarlo Stanton: Since the Miami Marlins have already waived the white flag for 2013 by trading away just about every player of value on their...
• 11/26 PaulLebowitz.com: Red Sox Return to a Strategy From 10 Years Ago: After a last place finish and disastrous 2012 season, it’s a convenient storyline for the Red Sox to get back to their “roots”...
• 11/26 Through The Fence Baseball: Miami’s Giancarlo Stanton has a chance to be great now: Giancarlo Stanton is the best, most underrated hitter in the National League. There is no doubt he should stay with the Marlins....
• 11/25 Swingin' A's: If There’s a Wil, There’s A Way?: There has not been much activity lately to set the baseball world ablaze since the Marlins-Blue Jays blockbuster deal of a couple...
• 11/23 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball: Worst to (almost) First:   In a recent Ask Nash, I was mostly asked about the real life Pirates, how do they become relevant? More...The post Fantasy...
• 11/22 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Weiner, Blue Jays, Tax: Happy Thanksgiving! Here are some links on a relatively quiet day for MLB transactions... Jerry Crasnick profiles MLBPA executive...
• 11/21 PaulLebowitz.com: Jeff Wilpon’s Lesson: Never Answer Questions: Would the reaction to Jeff Wilpon be any different had he chosen not to respond to questions about David Wright and R.A. Dickey?...
• 11/21 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Hicks and Miller DFA’d: Teams around baseball are designating players for assignment, cutting them, and making all sorts of roster moves in advance of...
• 11/20 PaulLebowitz.com: Blue Jays Make a Surprising and Solid Choice in Gibbons: In a surprise move, John Gibbons has been hired as the the new manager of the Toronto Blue Jays. By some, this will be seen as...
• 11/19 Swingin' A's: Derek Norris: The Catcher of the Future (But What About Now?): The 2012 season was another year of transition at a key position for the Athletics.  It was the season that saw Kurt Suzuki make...
• 11/18 Swingin' A's: Could the A’s Bring Back Eric Chavez?: The chances of the A’s bringing back veteran infielder Eric Chavez seem very slim, but Billy Beane and the rest of Oakland’s...
• 11/17 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Massive Blockbusters: Could Oakland Join This Trend?: Despite the fact that Billy Beane has emphatically said he would not trade from his young starting pitching – after all...
• 11/16 Swingin' A's: A’s Ship Tyson Ross to the 619: Well this week we saw the Toronto Blue Jays and the Arizona Diamondbacks agree on the blockbuster of all blockbuster trades not...
• 11/16 YankeeAnalysts.com: Finding The Next Great Swish/C-Grand-Type Trade Candidate: (The following is being syndicated from An A-Blog for A-Rod) Barring a a big-time unexpected swerve, the Yankees seem pretty well...
• 11/15 MetsToday.com: Buck Showalter Robbed: While we bask in the glow of R.A. Dickey‘s Cy Young Award win — and get in your celebration quickly, because who knows...
• 11/15 Birds Watcher: Baltimore Orioles: Is Showalter a victim of circumstance?: There are a lot of different ways to look at the 2012 Manager of the Year award that went to Bob Melvin instead of Buck Showalter....
• 11/14 Call to the Pen: Bob Melvin AL Manager Of Year: By voting Bob Melvin the American League manager of the year, those deliberating decided that he pulled off a bigger miracle with...
• 11/13 Baseball News Source: Oakland Athletics Bob Melvin AL Manager of The Year: Melvin edged Orioles manager Buck Showalter for AL Manager of the Year Bob Melvin of the Oakland Athletics was chosen As the...
• 11/13 District On Deck: A Look Back At The Gio Gonzalez Trade: Back on December 23, the Washington Nationals and Oakland Athletics made a trade that few could have seen being beneficial to...
• 11/13 MetsToday.com: How the Mets Might Play Moneyball this Winter: A large part of the Oakland Athletics unexpected success in 2012 can be attributed to Billy Beane‘s ability to find undervalued...
• 11/13 Swingin' A's: Runner Up to ROY Goes to Yoenis Cespedes: I don’t think I can ever recall a time when I was even remotely excited that an Athletics player finished 2nd in the Rookie...
• 11/12 MLBRandomFandom: Up-And-Comers: Relief Pitchers: This is the second article of MLBRandomFandom's "Up-And-Comers" series, in which we talk about players on the rise. Today: Relief...
• 11/11 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Who Can Be Traded?: I take everything the A’s brass says with a grain of salt. Clearly they aren’t going to telegraph their intentions...
• 11/11 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Yes or No? Oakland’s Arbitration Eligible Players: MLBTradeRumors.com’s Ben Nicholson-Smith today shared his offseason outlook for the A’s. Included in that was the...
• 11/11 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Re-Sign Bartolo Colon: I didn’t see this one coming. I figured that Bartolo Colon‘s career with Oakland, and most likely his career in general,...
• 11/11 Swingin' A's: The SS Search Continues, or Who the Heck is Hiroyuki Nakajima?: It has been the focal point of the Oakland Athletics offseason, I know there has been no lack of coverage on this very site about...
• 11/10 mlbreports.com : Contact Hitters and Pitchers Are New Keys to Win In the MLB Playoffs: Bravo Giants! Attn: Yankees!: Saturday, Nov.10/2012   Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Writer): I can’t believe I am going to utter these next few words, “I...
• 11/10 PaulLebowitz.com: 2012 MLB Rookie of the Year Award Winners: Here are my picks for the Rookie of the Year in each league along with who I picked in the preseason. — American League...
• 11/9 Birds Watcher: Were the Orioles and Dan Duquette snubbed?: Late Wednesday night MASN’s Roch Kubatko reported that Oakland Athletics’ GM (and Vice-President) Billy Beane had...
• 11/9 Swingin' A's: Billy Beane: Best In The World: Over the years there has been no shortage of recognition for A’s General Manager Billy Beane.  Heck, they made a movie...
• 11/8 MLBTradeRumors: Bay Area Notes: Athletics, Pence, Giants: Congrats to Athletics GM Billy Beane, who was named the Executive of the Year by the Sporting News following his team's surprising...
• 11/8 For Baseball Junkies: BBA Announces 2012 Stan Musial Award Winners: The Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) announced the recipients of this year's Stan Musial Award earlier this week.  The official...
• 11/8 Tyler's Think Tank: Numbers Game: Now more than ever before, sports have evolved into games of numbers. Every play, shot, and pitch is dissected. Each trade,...
• 11/7 Swingin' A's: Calling for A-Cab: I’m going to let you in on a little secret. There lies an obtainable All-Star shortstop on the market, that would look great...
• 11/6 Call to the Pen: Oakland A’s Crazy To Bring Bartolo Colon Back: This one comes under the category of What are they thinking? The Oakland A’s are bringing pitcher Bartolo Colon back to...
• 11/5 mlbreports.com : Analyzing the Oakland A’s Outfield Conundrum: Monday November 5th, 2012 Jake Dal Porto: The A’s now find themselves in a sticky situation with four outfielders who are all...
• 11/4 Swingin' A's: A’s Welcome Back Bartolo With Open Arms: Well everyone was probably waiting to hear the news of the A’s resigning one of their veteran starting pitchers to a new...
• 11/4 Swingin' A's: Is There Another Big Three On The Way?: The days of Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, and Barry Zito leading the A’s to numerous postseason runs seem so long ago. Oakland...
• 11/3 Baseball Musings: Full Colon: The Oakland Athletics re-hired Bartolo Colon to pitch for them despite his drug suspension in 2012: “We wanted to bring...
• 11/3 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Oakland A's Resign Bartolo Colon: Let it be known, that Billy Beane will not be deterred by a positive steroid test. A year after signing Manny Ramirez...
• 11/2 The Flagrant Fan: Kevin Youkilis - The Greek god of what?: If you go to Kevin Youkilis' Baseball-reference.com's player page, one of the nicknames given there is the, "Greek God of Walks."...

• 10/31 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Balfour Option Exercised; Drew Option Declined: The A’s had two options to deal with and did so today exercising the option for Grant Balfour while declining their option...
• 10/31 Swingin' A's: YES! YES! YES! Josh Reddick Takes the Gold: Yesterday I stated quite frankly that it would be a travesty if Josh Reddick wasn’t awarded the Gold Glove for RF, and I’m...
• 10/30 Swingin' A's: Would the A’s Trade Yoenis Cespedes?: With the A’s boasting an excess in outfield help, would Billy Beane and the front office ever think about trading Yoenis...
• 10/30 Swingin' A's: Disposable Heroes: Saying goodbye is always the hardest part. Especially if you’re an Oakland A’s fan.  Season after season, A’s...
• 10/30 Swingin' A's: Balfour Rages On, Drew’s Future Up In the Air: The Balfour Rage dance, that has made the top of the 9th inning a major event at the Oakland Coliseum, will live to see atleast...
• 10/29 MLBTradeRumors: A's Will Continue Negotiating With Drew: The A's declined their half of Stephen Drew's mutual $10MM option earlier today, but assistant general manager David Forst told...
• 10/29 Swingin' A's: BMac Needs to be Back: Within the last few days an article was posted on another website that may or may not be owned by the people who own TBS, this...
• 10/29 PaulLebowitz.com: The Giants Do It Old School: With the tiered playoff system, single game play-ins, and short series, two World Series titles in three years counts as a dynasty...
• 10/29 Baseball Jerks: 2013 MLB Free Agents: Who Goes Where? Part One: The season is over. The Giants are the world champs. Now, we can settle in for a couple of days, and then start stressing out...
• 10/29 Kings of Kauffman: Exeunt 2012 Season: Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants for their second World Series Championship in three seasons. In doing so, the nation...
• 10/27 Swingin' A's: What To Do With Josh Reddick: The multiple trades that took place last offseason shook the foundation of the Oakland Athletics.  Many fan favorites, theoretical...
• 10/26 Swingin' A's: The Foundation of an Effective Bullpen: Grant Balfour has the Balfour Rage, Ryan Cook has the unhittable slider and the All Star Game appearance, Sean Doolittle has the...
• 10/25 Venom Strikes: D-backs’ Offseason Shopping List: It’s an extensive process – creating a shopping list that is. I live in a town of a little over 3,000 people and there are...
• 10/25 Swingin' A's: Jonny Gomes, More Than Just Leadership: I’ve made no secret of the fact that I was thrilled to see Jonny Gomes come to the A’s this past season.  Being a...
• 10/23 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Cardinals, Baker, Athletics, Farrell, Marlins: While last winter was an offseason of transition for the Cardinals, the club is now set to retain almost everyone after coming...
• 10/23 That Ball's Outta Here: Cards On The Table: All Brothers Are Not Created Equal: If Alex Rodriguez had a brother, the Phillies would have signed him. If Barry Bonds had a brother, the Phillies would have signed...
• 10/23 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Acquire Chris Young from DBacks: The A’s pulled off a surprising trade today as they sent longtime shortstop Cliff Pennington and shortstop prospect Yordy...
• 10/21 60ft6in.com: The Irony of the Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout MVP Debate: I can’t help but laugh at the AL MVP debate. The irony of it all is just too much. Mike Trout, and his major league leading...
• 10/9 MetsToday.com: Should Mets Extend Wright, Dickey?: We had fun yesterday dipping our toe in the water of the most important pond of the Mets’ offseason: whether the Mets should...
• 10/3 PaulLebowitz.com: The 2012 Athletics Are A Great Story That Has Nothing To Do With Moneyball: Going to Michael Lewis for a quote about the 2012 Oakland Athletics because he wrote Moneyball as the author does in this NY Times...

• 9/24 Tyler's Think Tank: Gio Earns 20th Win: Gio Gonzalez became the first pitcher to reach the 20 win plateau this season after his Washington Nationals routed the...
• 9/16 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: Angels @ A’s Game 136: Not a good game for A’s fans. There is the obvious, the A’s lost 7-1 meaning the Angels have swept the now 76-60 A’s...
• 9/9 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: A’s @ Angels Game 136: Not a good game for A’s fans. There is the obvious, the A’s lost 7-1 meaning the Angels have swept the now 76-60 A’s...
• 9/4 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Jim Miller Recalled from Stockton: Jim Miller did not pitch in Stockton, nor was in the minors for ten days. This is all because of a sneaky little move by Billy...
• 9/4 Halo Hangout: Link Hangout: Jered Weaver might miss his next start, Torii Hunter is getting back to his roots and Mark Trumbo‘s slump just will not...
• 9/3 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: Red Sox @ A’s Game 132: The A’s are shockingly trailing by just three games the AL West leading Rangers following tonight’s 7-1 win over the...
• 9/2 Tyler's Think Tank: Moneyball Revisited: With the Oakland A's riding an eight game winning streak and poised to make the playoffs for the first time since 2006 (coolstandings.com...
• 9/2 PaulLebowitz.com: “Because They Did It” Is Not A Viable Argument: Baseball analysis has become a newest latest endeavor. Whatever is “working” is seen as the new strategy and this should be...
• 9/1 Tyler's Think Tank: Oakland On a Roll: I admit it; I was wrong. Back during the dark days of February, when I put together my 2012 season projections, I awarded the...

• 8/29 Yanks Go Yard: Could Nick Swisher be wearing a Red Sox uniform in 2013?: By now, everyone has had time to digest the biggest trade since the season started: the epic, nine-player deal that send Carl...
• 8/27 WahoosOnFirst: Opposition Research: David Fung Talks Oakland Athletics: The Indians have a chance to play spoiler this week as they kick off a four-game series with the surprisingly good Oakland Athletics...
• 8/22 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Bartolo Colon Fails Drug Test: 50 Game Suspension Awaits: I have not been crazy about Bartolo Colon. I have found him to be sort of boring to watch and I have also just assumed that at...
• 8/20 PaulLebowitz.com: The Diabolical Schemes of Melky Cabrera: When flipping through the annals of world-conquering genius, we see the luminaries. Stewie Griffin Dr. Evil Scott Boras Emperor...
• 8/18 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: A’s @ White Sox Game 114: This game was pretty miserable, featuring a play akin to Brendan Ryan‘s infield triple last year against a hapless A’s...
• 8/17 WahoosOnFirst: Series Preview: Cleveland Indians at Oakland Athletics: Well, it looks like the Cleveland Indians weren’t able to play the spoiler in the race for the AL West in Anaheim, but there’s...
• 8/14 PaulLebowitz.com: The Mets Acquired Kelly Shoppach Because…: I hate to shatter the myths and nonsense that are being floated by the Joel Shermans of the world, but here’s the truth without...
• 8/11 PaulLebowitz.com: Figures of Attendance, Part III—the Genius Can’t Conjure Fans to Come to the Park: When discussing attendance and its connectivity or lack of connectivity to publicity and results, how can we ignore the Athletics?...
• 8/6 Tyler's Think Tank: Quietly Brutal Hitters: The following players are having terrible seasons, but seem to be avoiding the scrutiny and heckling they deserve.  That...

• 7/29 Tyler's Think Tank: 100 Games in: As many teams reach the century mark in games played, let's take stock of what we've learned from the season's first 100 games...
• 7/29 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Fautino De Los Santos Sent to Brewers for Kottaras: Yesterday I figured the piece sent to Milwaukee in return for backstop George Kottaras would be minimal. The man being sent to...
• 7/28 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Acquire George Kottaras: The A’s have acquired Milwaukee Brewers catcher George Kottaras. It is not yet clear what the A’s will have to send...
• 7/24 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Interested in Hanley Ramirez: Yesterday the rumor mill discussed the A’s being interested in Chase Headley to improve the left side of their infield....
• 7/24 Baseball Musings: The Beane Rebuild: Dan Lependorf discusses an Oakland rebuild that actually worked: Off went All-Star Gio Gonzalez to the Nationals, for four prospects....
• 7/23 The Baseball Page: Seven-Up: Seven teams completed series sweeps today. The Blue Jays leap-frogged...
• 7/23 PaulLebowitz.com: Strasburg Ambiguity Mars The Nationals’ Magical Season: How can anyone involved with the Nationals justify looking into Stephen Strasburg’s face and telling him that while the team...
• 7/21 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Pennington to Disabled List: Seems a little too convenient doesn’t it? Cliff Pennington whose struggles at the plate this year are more than well documented...
• 7/21 Baseball Musings: Quote of the Day: Via BBTF, Billy Beane on his Athletics: “We’ve become so watchable,” said Beane, as if slightly amazed himself....
• 7/18 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Cowgill Activated and Optioned: Collin Cowgill, sidelined with a sprained ankle, was activated off of the disabled list today and optioned to Triple-A Sacramento....
• 7/18 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Could Cliff Pennington’s Days Be Numbered?: The A’s could be looking to replace the struggling Cliff Pennington. While Pennington never will be confused for someone...
• 7/17 PaulLebowitz.com: General Manager is Not a Baseball Job, it’s a Political Office: Fans of the Mariners should be very afraid if this story from Jon Paul Morosi is true. Truth is, of course, relative. Mariners’...
• 7/7 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s and Rays Talking Suzuki?: Jim Bowden of ESPNxmRadio tweeted, “Billy Beane did not deny that he’s spoken to Tampa Bay Rays regarding Kurt Suzuki...
• 7/6 PaulLebowitz.com: Somebody Wants You…Somewhere: Let’s have a look at some players who have worn out their welcomes with their current organizations but could have some use...
• 7/1 PaulLebowitz.com: Do The Mariners Want To Win Or Not?: The following is from Nick Cafardo in his Sunday Baseball Notes: Ichiro Suzuki, OF, Mariners — It would be a terrible burden...

• 6/30 PaulLebowitz.com: Ominous Signs For The Twins: If Twins’ GM Terry Ryan’s recent moves and statements are any indication, the team is well on the way to another long lull...
• 6/28 Baseball Musings: Five is Enough: The Pirates scored five runs in the first inning, and they let the Phillies chip away at that lead for the rest of the game, but...
• 6/21 Swingin' A's: The A’s in Pop Culture:   During a recent week long excursion to the Windy City of Chicago, I found myself physically removed from my favorite team...
• 6/16 PaulLebowitz.com: The A’s Had Nothing To Lose With Manny: Billy Beane’s decision to sign Manny Ramirez wasn’t the work of a “genius” nor was it a desperate move for a desperate...
• 6/15 PaulLebowitz.com: ESPN Thinks You’re Stupid: In The Simpsons’ Halloween special Treehouse of Horror III, Bart Simpson finds a Waldo book in the library. He opens it...
• 6/8 PaulLebowitz.com: Billy Beane And The Ka’aihue Caper: Which do you want? Do you want the Moneyball (the farcical book and ridiculous movie) version of Billy Beane where he’s a ruthless...
• 6/8 PaulLebowitz.com: It’s Not 1998 And The Yankees Are Not 46-10: Did  the Yankees start the season 46-10 and I missed it? I must’ve because the tone of the Yankee-centric media and fanbase...
• 6/5 PaulLebowitz.com: My Annual MLB Draft Rant: I tuned into the draft coverage on the MLB Network last night for a brief moment as they were up to pick 40 or so. When talking...
• 6/3 Bus League Baseball: Back-To-Back: How Teams Have Done With Consecutive Picks in the Draft: I was following along with the first round of Minor League Ball’s Community Mock Draft last weekend when I realized that the...

• 5/25 MLB Dirt: Sean Jamieson: Moving Up the Ranks of Oakland Prospects: When a baseball team is in rebuilding mode, it will look in all directions to improve. While high draft picks and splashy free...
• 5/19 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Manny Ramirez to Make Season Debut for Sacramento: This evening the River Cats will be playing the Albuquerque Isotopes in New Mexico. Starting for the River Cats at designated...
• 5/6 PaulLebowitz.com: Cespedes Has One Month: As talented as Yoenis Cespedes clearly is, that talent is raw. He’s increasingly become a feast or famine hitter with trouble...

• 4/26 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Taylor In? If So… Who is Out?: A little while ago Joe Stiglich of the Contra Costa Times tweeted this: “Michael Taylor is in Baltimore with #Athletics, so...
• 4/8 PaulLebowitz.com: MLB Opening Week Madhouse: Let’s recap the lunacy of the first half-week of the 2012 season, disorder by disorder; mental issue by mental issue. Mariano...
• 4/8 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Asking an Unpo**** Question: The A’s have a rare Easter Sunday off due to this bizarre beginning of the season scheduling care of the trip to Japan....
• 4/6 Bus League Baseball: The Bizarro Hall of Fame: The Class of 1991: The Bizarro Hall of Fame was a series I ran on my old blog, One More Dying Quail, in 2007. It consists of players who appeared...

• 3/30 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Is Casey Blake a Fit for Oakland?: The Colorado Rockies released third baseman Casey Blake today. Blake had signed a non-guaranteed contract worth $2M with additional...
• 3/30 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Suzuki and the Rays: There have been talks of the Rays and A’s hooking up on a trade centered around A’s catcher Kurt Suzuki. Most of these...
• 3/30 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Guillermo Moscoso or Phil Humber? A Year Later: The A’s fans may remember that the A’s had Phil Humber last offseason. He was designated for assignment when the A’s...
• 3/30 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: A’s @ (Yomiuri) Giants Japanese Exhibition Game 1: I want to get into this game, but first I want to issue a complaint to Major League Baseball. I don’t know if Major League...
• 3/30 PaulLebowitz.com: What To Expect From the New Dodgers’ Ownership: Dodgers’ owner Frank McCourt selected a group led by former Los Angeles Lakers star and NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson and...
• 3/19 PaulLebowitz.com: Yoenis Cespedes To Play Center Field; Coco Crisp To Play Left: Athletics’ manager Bob Melvin announced his intention of playing Cuban defector and inexplicable Athletics’ free agent...
• 3/17 PaulLebowitz.com: Yoenis Cespedes—Book Excerpt: Yoenis Cespedes is a Cuban defector with a physique that’s been compared to Bo Jackson. He has power to all fields, speed, a...
• 3/16 C70 At The Bat: Playing Pepper 2012: Oakland Athletics: In 2009, I decided to get a feel for other teams around baseball by asking bloggers for those teams some questions about their...
• 3/13 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Claim Brandon Hicks Off Waivers: The A’s claimed infielder Brandon Hicks off of waivers from the Atlanta Braves today. In a related move the A’s placed...
• 3/10 PaulLebowitz.com: Billy Beane—2012 Baseball Guide Excerpt: I’m sure some of those who are familiar with me, what I do and how strongly I feel about the farcical nature of Moneyball the...
• 3/8 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Strike Back: I’m not one to comment much on the A’s potential relocation to San Jose. For the best information regarding that I...
• 3/7 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Strike Back: I’m not one to comment much on the A’s potential relocation to San Jose. For the best information regarding that I...

• 2/29 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Tejada Wants A’s, Do A’s Want Him?: This morning it was reported in The Drumbeat that because Scott Sizemore is destined to miss the 2012 campaign due to his torn...
• 2/27 PaulLebowitz.com: The Real Reason Moneyball Was Shut Out at the Oscars: You’re wondering how it’s possible that such a wonderful, true-to-life, triumph over adversity story like Moneyball was shut...
• 2/21 El Maquino: > THE MANNY SIGNING WAS ACTUALLY A GOOD IDEA: Upon hearing, “The Oakland A’s have signed Manny Ramirez,” the natural reflex is to think of how completely...
• 2/21 NY Baseball Digest: Mark Fidrych, the Greatest Non-Roster Invitee: The minor-league deal. The non-roster invite to spring training. It’s like one of those phrases you hear in passing and ignore....
• 2/19 PaulLebowitz.com: Ibanez vs Chavez is No Contest: Is there really a debate as to whether the Yankees should add Raul Ibanez or Eric Chavez? Never mind the absurdity of the Yankees...
• 2/17 Baseball Musings: Signing Cespedes: Dan Lependorf tries to make sense of the Oakland Athletics signing Yoenis Cespedes: Thanks to the rebuilding, the A’s had...
• 2/13 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Would A.J. Burnett Be a Fit in Oakland?: There is no actual rumor that the A’s have any interest in A.J. Burnett – it is however well known that the Yankees...
• 2/13 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Billy Beane Extended Through 2019: Today came a report from Bloomberg that Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane has had his contract extended through 2019...
• 2/13 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Are the A’s Interested in Koji Uehara?: This morning in his weekly column at the Boston Globe, Nick Cafardo had one of the crazier rumors of the year saying that the...
• 2/13 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Have Interest in Magglio Ordonez:   The Oakland A’s have interest in free-agent Magglio Ordonez as per a Peter Gammons tweet that reads, “The A’s...
• 2/13 PaulLebowitz.com: From the People Who Brought You Michael Ynoa…: Michael Ynoa is a right-handed pitcher from the Dominican Republic who signed with the Athletics for a then-A’s record signing...
• 2/12 PaulLebowitz.com: Oscars Invitations—Lost In the Mail: With Billy Beane attending the Oscars to support Brad Pitt and Moneyball and their nominations—link—I thought it would...
• 2/8 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Would A.J. Burnett Be a Fit in Oakland?: There is no actual rumor that the A’s have any interest in A.J. Burnett – it is however well known that the Yankees...
• 2/8 PaulLebowitz.com: 2019: A Beane Odyssey: I hadn’t realized that running the Oakland Athletics had become the equivalent of a Federal job where you can’t get fired...
• 2/7 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Billy Beane Extended Through 2019: Today came a report from Bloomberg that Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane has had his contract extended through 2019...
• 2/5 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Are the A’s Interested in Koji Uehara?: This morning in his weekly column at the Boston Globe, Nick Cafardo had one of the crazier rumors of the year saying that the...
• 2/4 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Have Interest in Magglio Ordonez:   The Oakland A’s have interest in free-agent Magglio Ordonez as per a Peter Gammons tweet that reads, “The A’s...
• 2/3 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Interview: Seth Smith: At the Oakland A’s FanFest I was invited to join five other bloggers in a press conference style interview of five members of...
• 2/1 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Interview: Brandon McCarthy: At the Oakland A’s FanFest I was invited to join five other bloggers in a press conference style interview of five members of...

• 1/31 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Maybe Manny Being Manny in Oakland is OK?:   I might be coming around on Manny Ramirez. I have long felt that where there is smoke there is fire. Too often when an...
• 1/31 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Completely Off the Rails: Gomes and Manny: The A’s officially inked Jonny Gomes to a one-year contract today worth a reported $1.1M a year. A terrible move that really...
• 1/30 Baseball Musings: Moneyball Review: Over the weekend I finally watch Moneyball, renting it from DirecTV on Demand in glorious 1080p. My first thought after completing...
• 1/28 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Maybe Manny Being Manny in Oakland is OK?:   I might be coming around on Manny Ramirez. I have long felt that where there is smoke there is fire. Too often when an...
• 1/22 PaulLebowitz.com: Billy Beane’s House of Lies and Simplified Math: Another defense of Billy Beane and his “strategy” for 2012 is presented by Richard Justice MLB.com—link. Let’s deal...
• 1/20 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Completely Off the Rails: Gomes and Manny: The A’s officially inked Jonny Gomes to a one-year contract today worth a reported $1.1M a year. A terrible move that really...
• 1/20 PaulLebowitz.com: Signing Manny Involves Zero Risk, No Money and Minimal Potential Headaches: We’ll soon get a gauge on Manny Ramirez’s desperation to get back into baseball if he signs with the “very interested”...
• 1/17 PaulLebowitz.com: Poor Billy: So you’re trapped in a division with two powerhouses. You play in an awful, antiquated and uninviting home park that, in spite...
• 1/16 Call to the Pen: Oakland Athletics acquire Seth Smith: Even in a firesale, Billy Beane has still managed to acquire two veteran outfielders with both moves being savvy ones when looking...
• 1/16 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: What Just Happened Here?: I’ve actually had posts regarding several of these issues that came to a head today. Back in October, I wrote about Guillermo...
• 1/15 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Colon to Sign in Oakland: UPDATE: There are reports the deal is for $2.0M. Which means he won’t have to do too much to “earn” his contract....
• 1/11 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Should the A’s Put a Claim on Fernando Martinez?: I strongly opposed the Coco Crisp signing. I felt that Oakland was better off investing in 4A type players who could fill the...
• 1/9 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: When Life Depends on a Lottery: The Oakland A’s: I like Jonah Keri. I enjoyed his book about the Tampa Bay Rays (The Extra 2%), and I tend to respect his point of view when he...
• 1/8 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: When Life Depends on a Lottery: The Oakland A’s: I like Jonah Keri. I enjoyed his book about the Tampa Bay Rays (The Extra 2%), and I tend to respect his point of view when he...
• 1/7 PaulLebowitz.com: Poor Billy: So you’re trapped in a division with two powerhouses. You play in an awful, antiquated and uninviting home park that, in spite...
• 1/5 Call to the Pen: Oakland Athletics sign Coco Crisp: This deal is one of the most difficult deals to analyze in this offseason because of the context of this deal. Center fielder...
• 1/4 PaulLebowitz.com: Coco Crisp Takes His Talents Back To Oakland: When MLB Trade Rumors published the posting that Coco Crisp had made his decision as to which club he wanted to sign with, many...
• 1/3 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Marginal Improvements for the 2012 A’s: What’s the Point?: Yesterday I posted about a rumor from Jeff Fletcher of Bay Bridge Baseball that said that the A’s were in preliminary talks...
• 1/3 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Cody Ross to the A’s? Let’s Hope Not: I have lamented quite a bit the past few weeks about the A’s lack of outfield depth. Particularly with respect to the trade...
• 1/3 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Marginal Improvements for the 2012 A’s: What’s the Point?: Yesterday I posted about a rumor from Jeff Fletcher of Bay Bridge Baseball that said that the A’s were in preliminary talks...
• 1/2 NY Baseball Digest: The Price for Matt Garza is Worth It: Although no clear favorite has emerged in acquiring Cubs RHP Matt Garza,  Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reports the Yankees,...
• 1/1 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Cody Ross to the A’s? Let’s Hope Not: I have lamented quite a bit the past few weeks about the A’s lack of outfield depth. Particularly with respect to the trade...

• 12/29 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Bailey and Sweeney Sent to Boston:     Andrew Bailey and Ryan Sweeney will be shipping up to Boston as the Red Sox and Athletics made a much anti**** trade...
• 12/29 PaulLebowitz.com: Analyzing the Red Sox-A’s Trade: Athletics trade RHP Andrew Bailey and OF Ryan Sweeney to the Red Sox for OF Josh Red**** minor league 1B Miles Head and minor...
• 12/29 PaulLebowitz.com: Relegate the A’s: Since Billy Beane has become such a keen observer of European fútbol and Michael Lewis publicly stated that he sees Beane one...
• 12/28 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Bailey and Sweeney Sent to Boston:     Andrew Bailey and Ryan Sweeney will be shipping up to Boston as the Red Sox and Athletics made a much anti**** trade...
• 12/27 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Interested in Seth Smith?:   In the offseason so many moves are dependent upon one thing happening causing another to occur, then like dominoes several...
• 12/27 PaulLebowitz.com: The Genius Will Return…In 2015: It’s almost biblical or a tenet of faith for any religion or cult. According to the actions of Billy Beane along with whispers...
• 12/26 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Interested in Seth Smith?:   In the offseason so many moves are dependent upon one thing happening causing another to occur, then like dominoes several...
• 12/26 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Merry Christmas San Jose! (and Iwakuma?): The big news of course is the report from Bob Nightengale of USA Today, yet strangely seemingly unconfirmed by any other source...
• 12/26 PaulLebowitz.com: Quality Moves, Under the Radar: While the Marlins and Angels have garnered the headlines with their spending sprees; the Nationals by their overreaching trade...
• 12/25 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Merry Christmas San Jose! (and Iwakuma?): The big news of course is the report from Bob Nightengale of USA Today, yet strangely seemingly unconfirmed by any other source...
• 12/24 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Gio Trade Fallout: Roster Crunch: First things first, one late addition to the Gio Gonzalez trade with Washington (from a our knowing of it, not necessarily negotiations-wise)...
• 12/24 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Gio Gonzalez Dealt To Washington for Four Prospects: Gio Gonzalez‘ tenure as an Oakland Athletic has come to its end as Billy Beane sent the southpaw to the nation’s capital...
• 12/24 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Gio Trade Fallout: Roster Crunch: First things first, one late addition to the Gio Gonzalez trade with Washington (from a our knowing of it, not necessarily negotiations-wise)...
• 12/24 PaulLebowitz.com: It’s a Gio!!!!: Let’s look at the Gio Gonzalez trade and its ramifications for all parties. — B-B-B-Billy and the Nats. As I said in my...
• 12/24 Baseball Musings: Oakland Complaints: People are starting to fret over the constant rebuilding in Oakland: “I’d rather run a club that has a 3- or 4-year...
• 12/22 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Gio Gonzalez Dealt To Washington for Four Prospects: Gio Gonzalez‘ tenure as an Oakland Athletic has come to its end as Billy Beane sent the southpaw to the nation’s capital...
• 12/22 PaulLebowitz.com: Beane Goes Back to Basics and the Worshippers Rejoice: In trading Gio Gonzalez and Trevor Cahill for packages of prospects, Billy Beane returns to his roots in accumulating pitchers...
• 12/20 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Yu is Off the Board: Yu Darvish, the Japanese phenom from the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters was posted and the posting fee winner was announced yesterday...
• 12/20 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Yu is Off the Board: Yu Darvish, the Japanese phenom from the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters was posted and the posting fee winner was announced yesterday...
• 12/20 NY Baseball Digest: Dissecting the Jonathon Niese Rumors: There have been persistent rumors since the Winter Meetings that Sandy Alderson is looking to deal Jonathon Niese for prospects....
• 12/20 NY Baseball Digest: Alderson Should Build Around Wright: Pretty much all major sports, but especially, baseball, are copycat sports. If something works for one organization, then others...
• 12/19 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Latos and the Starting Pitcher Trade Market: Mat Latos of the San Diego Padres was traded today in a very significant move with the Cincinnati Reds who sent Yonder Alonso,...
• 12/19 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Yu Darvish and the Oakland A’s 2012 Rotation: Yu Darvish will not be an Oakland Athletic in 2012. Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle tweeted so much several days...
• 12/19 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Twins Sign Willingham:   Josh Willingham‘s tenure with the Oakland A’s, though unofficially over for a long while is now officially...
• 12/18 MetsToday.com: The Fantasy 3-Way Deal: No Gio for Metsies: Amid these new rumors circulating around New York Mets and Oakland A’s left-handed starter Gio Gonzalez; I have cultivated a...
• 12/18 PaulLebowitz.com: The Objective Truth About Luhnow: Simultaneously searching for a greater understanding through objective analysis, the stat people have taken to using subjectivity...
• 12/17 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Latos and the Starting Pitcher Trade Market: Mat Latos of the San Diego Padres was traded today in a very significant move with the Cincinnati Reds who sent Yonder Alonso,...
• 12/17 NY Baseball Digest: Dissecting the Jonathon Niese Rumors: There have been persistent rumors since the Winter Meetings that Sandy Alderson is looking to deal Jonathon Niese for prospects....
• 12/16 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Yu Darvish and the Oakland A’s 2012 Rotation: Yu Darvish will not be an Oakland Athletic in 2012. Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle tweeted so much several days...
• 12/15 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Twins Sign Willingham:   Josh Willingham‘s tenure with the Oakland A’s, though unofficially over for a long while is now officially...
• 12/15 PaulLebowitz.com: Be Careful With Gio Gonzalez: Athletics’ lefty Gio Gonzalez is the hot pursuit of multiple teams this winter. But there are red flags that would tell me to...
• 12/12 NY Baseball Digest: Alderson Should Build Around Wright: Pretty much all major sports, but especially, baseball, are copycat sports. If something works for one organization, then others...
• 12/12 PaulLebowitz.com: So Billy Beane Gets Another Rebuild?: Isn’t the point of stocking the farm system, accumulating pitching that’s young and high-end and signing them to long-term...
• 12/10 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Cahill and Breslow Sent to Arizona: The A’s unleashed their first trade of the offseason shipping Trevor Cahill and Craig Breslow along with cash considerations...
• 12/10 PaulLebowitz.com: Yu Darvish and the Yankees: Despite refusing to show their hand in the Yu Darvish sweepstakes, the Yankees must have posted a large bid for the Japanese right-hander....
• 12/9 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Cahill and Breslow Sent to Arizona: The A’s unleashed their first trade of the offseason shipping Trevor Cahill and Craig Breslow along with cash considerations...
• 12/9 PaulLebowitz.com: All Jose Reyes Wanted Was Love…and a Check for $106 Million: You’re surprised that Sandy Alderson can be obnoxious, arrogant and say idiotic things? Some laud him for his “blunt”...
• 12/8 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Winter Meetings Day Three: Gio, Breslow, Cahill, Bailey and Willingham: On a day that David Forst must’ve taken the wheel because Billy Beane has returned to Oakland, the by far number one source...
• 12/8 Baseball Musings: Economists on Moneyball: Two economists discuss how Moneyball changed the landscape of baseball: Here’s something funny about the Moneyball strategy:...
• 12/7 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Winter Meetings Day Three: Gio, Breslow, Cahill, Bailey and Willingham: On a day that David Forst must’ve taken the wheel because Billy Beane has returned to Oakland, the by far number one source...
• 12/7 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Winter Meetings Day Two: Bailey, Ponson, Gio, CoJax and San Jose: Lots of news again today which is unsurprising because it is after all the action packed winter meetings. The day started with...
• 12/7 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Winter Meetings Day One: Gio, Godzilla, Guillen and Nix:   The first day of the winter meetings is nearing its completion and the rumors surrounding the A’s are unsurprisingly...
• 12/6 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Winter Meetings Day Two: Bailey, Ponson, Gio, CoJax and San Jose: Lots of news again today which is unsurprising because it is after all the action packed winter meetings. The day started with...
• 12/6 PaulLebowitz.com: Ravaging the Mets: In a perfect world—sans Bernie Madoff—would the Mets have done everything they could to keep Jose Reyes? Would they...
• 12/5 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Winter Meetings Day One: Gio, Godzilla, Guillen and Nix:   The first day of the winter meetings is nearing its completion and the rumors surrounding the A’s are unsurprisingly...
• 12/2 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Ball Will Just Drop in the OF…: Oftentimes we have a conversation with someone, then we relay the details to someone else and a few things get lost in translation....
• 12/1 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Ball Will Just Drop in the OF…: Oftentimes we have a conversation with someone, then we relay the details to someone else and a few things get lost in translation....

• 11/30 PaulLebowitz.com: The Red Sox Out-of-Book Experience with Bobby Valentine: The Red Sox made the smart and gutsy decision to shun the “middle-manager” nonsense that came en vogue after Moneyball...
• 11/28 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Gio Gonzalez Offer Flatly Rejected: This morning, Clark Spencer of the Miami Herald’s Fish Bytes Blog wrote about the latest in the murmurs we hear about...
• 11/28 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Miami and Oakland Talk Gio Gonzalez: Today in the New York Post, Joel Sherman reported that, “When I asked Oakland GM Billy Beane about the availability of Trevor...
• 11/28 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Rivalry Renewed: Astros Move to AL West: The rich history of head-to-head combat and off-field shenanigans between the Houston Astros and Oakland A’s will be renewed...
• 11/28 PaulLebowitz.com: Hey, Reality!!!: Jon Heyman said the following on Twitter: @SI_JonHeyman Jon Heyman Perception is, redsox ownership wants valentine. Lamont was...
• 11/27 PaulLebowitz.com: Damage Control and Billy Beane: Athletics manager Bob Melvin convinced his friend Chili Davis to take the job as hitting coach—ESPN Story. Melvin’s...
• 11/26 NY Baseball Digest: Yanks Have a Few Starting Pitching Options: Some quick Saturday night updates -  There are several teams that could be looking at C.J. Wilson besides the Yankees, with...
• 11/24 PaulLebowitz.com: MLB CBA—The Draft Changes Explained In Plain English: The changes to the draft are complicated and their understanding is fluid—the reactions to the announcement of the changes...
• 11/24 NY Baseball Digest: Oakland Moneyball Trio in Historical Context: When the movie Moneyball was released in September, the main gripe by the public was how Michael Lewis never addressed how that...
• 11/22 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Gio Gonzalez Offer Flatly Rejected: This morning, Clark Spencer of the Miami Herald’s Fish Bytes Blog wrote about the latest in the murmurs we hear about...
• 11/20 PaulLebowitz.com: Giants/A’s—Same Area, Different Universe: The Athletics problems are not going to be solved by the planned new ballpark in San Jose because the supposed “last hurdle”...
• 11/18 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Miami and Oakland Talk Gio Gonzalez: Today in the New York Post, Joel Sherman reported that, “When I asked Oakland GM Billy Beane about the availability of Trevor...
• 11/17 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Rivalry Renewed: Astros Move to AL West: The rich history of head-to-head combat and off-field shenanigans between the Houston Astros and Oakland A’s will be renewed...
• 11/15 PaulLebowitz.com: It’s Not Your Business: For all the criticism he received for saying it, Jeff Wilpon wasn’t wrong when he said it wasn’t anyone’s business...
• 11/15 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: The Two Sides of Value: Andrew Bailey: Susan Slusser has a piece up in the A’s Drumbeat today where she talked about Andrew Bailey as a potential trade piece...
• 11/11 PaulLebowitz.com: Alderson And The Experts: You can watch the Sandy Alderson interview with Kevin Burkhardt on Mets Hot Stove above and make your own determination as to...
• 11/10 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Aoki and San Jose Being A-OK?: MLBTradeRumors.com’s Ben Nicholson-Smith speculated that three-time Central League batting-champion Norichika Aoki who appears...
• 11/7 PaulLebowitz.com: Hot Stove Bat To The Kneecap: To the best of my recollection, the Mets have won several hot stove championships in recent years. In the winter of 2001-2002,...
• 11/6 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Magnuson Moves, Timmons Re-ups and Weeks is Untouchable: There were three pieces of A’s news today. Trystan Magnuson who was recently DFA’d by the A’s was traded to...

• 10/30 PaulLebowitz.com: Nick Swisher Will Be Back In Pinstripes In 2012!! (Unless They Trade Him): To “eliminate” speculation of his possible departure from the Yankees, Nick Swisher‘s 2012 contract option for...
• 10/27 PaulLebowitz.com: This Is Probably Not A Youkilis Deal: As part of the agreement to let Billy Beane got to Boston after the 2002 season, the Red Sox were sending a minor league infielder...
• 10/25 PaulLebowitz.com: Of Reyes And Agendas: I make no secret of reveling in the fact that Moneyball and Billy Beane are, by now, incongruent; that I find it funny that Beane...
• 10/24 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Shea It Ain’t So: A Baffling Oakland A’s Target: John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle had an article yesterday discussing the various free-agents who could be headed for...
• 10/23 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Buy Low, Sell High: Why Moscoso Shouldn’t Be in Oakland in 2012:   Any even semi-regular reader of this blog knows that I had no love for Guillermo Moscoso this year. Actually, that isn’t...
• 10/22 PaulLebowitz.com: Don’t Expect Miracles From Theo Epstein: The Cubs paid a lot of money and are going to send undetermined compensation—a prospect or prospects—for the right...
• 10/19 PaulLebowitz.com: Prince Fielder’s Free Agent Possibilities: Prince Fielder will not be back with the Brewers. And I don’t want to hear how he’d “love” to stay in...
• 10/16 PaulLebowitz.com: Ryan Leads The Way For The Pennant-Winning Rangers: As affable as he is in interviews, Nolan Ryan is neither subdued nor calm; he’s a relentless competitor who was an ornery...
• 10/15 PaulLebowitz.com: Shifting The Moneyball Goalposts Yet Again: As much as Moneyball tried to paint the picture that “this is the way to build your team and if you ignore it you’re...
• 10/12 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: New Foe and a Crisis Averted: Two big pieces of news in baseball today. First of the Chicago Cubs signed Boston Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein to become...
• 10/12 PaulLebowitz.com: This Is Not About Theo Epstein (That Comes Later): Panic abounds in Boston as the prospect of a trifecta of organizational dysfunction beckons. Following the humiliating collapse...
• 10/10 NY Baseball Digest: Starlin Castro, Theo Epstein, and Jose Reyes: We recently saw Ozzie Guillen traded to the Marlins for two prospects. Lou Piniella was dealt to Tampa Bay for Randy Winn back...
• 10/7 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Yanks Could Deal Montero for Cahill or Gio:   Today in the New York Daily News Yankees beat report John Harper wrote, [Yankees GM Brian] Cashman seemingly remains convinced...
• 10/6 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Willingham Rental: Was It Worth It?: I suppose this now is the second entry in the “was it worth it?” category as yesterday we covered the one-year rental...
• 10/5 PaulLebowitz.com: Avoid The Consolation Hire: The Cubs have asked the Red Sox for permission to speak to GM Theo Epstein; one would assume that if Epstein would like to hear...
• 10/5 PaulLebowitz.com: This Is Not A Review Of Moneyball: I went to see Moneyball yesterday. This is not a recommendation nor is it a condemnation of the film, merely facts as I see them...
• 10/4 WSJ Daily Fix: Only Burnett Can Save the Yanks: The shaky starter has New York fans hiding under the covers as their team tries to avoid elimination by the Tigers. Plus: The...
• 10/3 PaulLebowitz.com: Theo Epstein And The Cubs: We’re hearing all sorts of rumors of whom the Cubs might pursue to be their General Manager, but no one has apparently been,...

• 9/29 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Imagining a Rebuild: John Shea and Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle had some interesting tweets today from the press conference featuring...
• 9/27 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: The Willingham Extension/Stadium Situation:   Susan Slusser yesterday had an article about the re-signing of Josh Willingham. On this blog we have discussed whether...
• 9/26 NY Baseball Digest: Does Anybody Here Know What Moneyball Is?: “Can’t anybody here play this game?” Said Casey Stengel when he took over the Mets in 1962. Nearly fifty years later...
• 9/25 NY Baseball Digest: Listen to Moneyball Tonight at 8pm: Tonight I review Moneyball the Movie and discuss the industry misconceptions of the film and book. Joining me is former big league...
• 9/25 PaulLebowitz.com: The Polar Opposites Of Genius/Idiot: So now Theo Epstein’s no longer a genius? Jack Zduriencik’s not a truly amazin’ exec? Billy Beane—forever...
• 9/24 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Moneybust?:   I saw Moneyball last night as I am sure many an A’s fan did. While the A’s were finishing up ending the Angels’...
• 9/24 Jeff's Mariners Fan Blog: Moneyball Hits the Sweetspot: Just got back from Guild 45th street theatre here in Wallingford after watching Moneyball and my mind is clear and my heart is...
• 9/24 NY Baseball Digest: Using Piazza Negotiations on Reyes, Feigned Interest, Balanced Managerial Style: Jose Reyes said the predictable words that you would hear from any free agent this time of the year. He told everyone how he loves...
• 9/23 PaulLebowitz.com: Firing Francona Is Plain Stupid: I’m the first one to say fire the manager when things don’t go as planned. It doesn’t have to be his fault....
• 9/23 NY Baseball Digest: In Case You Missed It: My Review of Moneyball The Movie: Moneyball The Movie opens up in theaters today. I had a chance to preview the film on Tuesday. Check out my review below which...
• 9/21 NY Baseball Digest: Morning Digest: Review of Moneyball The Movie Edition: Moneyball: It’s entertainment! At least that the message I give in my official review of the film over at Sports Media...
• 9/20 Baseball Musings: Three Years for Melvin: The Oakland Athletics will reward Bob Melvin with a three-year contract: The 49-year-old Melvin took over for the fired Bob Geren...
• 9/18 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: The 2012 Schedule and Return of Matsui: As of late, it seems every year the A’s begin their season by facing the Seattle Mariners. 2012 will be no different. What...
• 9/17 PaulLebowitz.com: Has J.P. Ricciardi Misplaced His Loose Cannon?: As mediocre a general manager as he was, I’ve always had a soft spot for J.P. Ricciardi. Somewhere in my frozen heart there’s...
• 9/16 PaulLebowitz.com: They’re Running From The Moneyball Plague: Generally when someone says the words “kernel of truth” and they’ve been caught in a lie, that “kernel...
• 9/16 NY Baseball Digest: Morning Digest: Why I Applaud Keith Law’s Evolution: The Moneyball film will open next Friday, but it already has caused a buzz in the baseball community. As I mentioned the other...
• 9/15 PaulLebowitz.com: Let’s Put Keith Law And Michael Lewis In A Room Together: Then we can lock it and leave. That’s it. Here is Law’s review of Moneyball, the MOVIE; and here’s Lewis’s...
• 9/14 PaulLebowitz.com: Revolutionary Infighting: Fiefdoms abound; tribal loyalties clash; desire for power and credit pits allies out of convenience into bitter enemies; turf...
• 9/14 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Wuertz Option Should Be Declined: Michael Wuertz has been a very good pitcher before. He hasn’t been good at all in 2011. Following another forgettable appearance...
• 9/14 Baseball Musings: Beane and the Bears: Paul Haddad contacted me yesterday about writing a guest post on Baseball Musings. A book of Paul’s on the Los Angeles Dodgers...
• 9/10 PaulLebowitz.com: Ricketts Should Not Fall For “The Verducci Effect”: I’m not referring to a writer’s research and guidelines on how to use pitchers. I’m talking about the hiring...
• 9/9 PaulLebowitz.com: MLB GM/Manager Merry Go ‘Round: Let’s have a look at the GMs and managers who might be looking for work after the season ends and who might replace them....
• 9/7 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Jason Rice and a Bigger Discussion on the 40-Man Roster: I am moving to California, driving across the country, so that is why the Live Blogs are few and far between and that is why the...
• 9/5 PaulLebowitz.com: Combustibility And The Marlins: The most prominent name associated with the job as Marlins’ manager for 2012 has been current White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen....
• 9/4 PaulLebowitz.com: Breaking Not Good: In today’s NY Times, Tyler Kepner relates the story of B.J. Wallace. Wallace was one of the players taken before Derek Jeter...
• 9/3 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Home Sweet Home and Some New A’s:   The A’s returned to Oakland yesterday and with the expanded September rosters some new men were added to the club....
• 9/3 PaulLebowitz.com: McKeon And The Marlins; Beane And The Cubs: Jack McKeon‘s future. It feels strange to talk about the future of someone who’s 81, but Marlins manager Jack McKeon...
• 9/3 NY Baseball Digest: If Cashman Bolts, Would Billy Beane in NY Make Sense?: Most people in baseball believe that Brian Cashman will return to the Yankees after this season. He has a great relationship with...
• 9/2 PaulLebowitz.com: MLB Stories 9.2.2011: McCourt is either Goldfinger or Dr. Evil. MLB is “skeptical” of the latest act in this long-running soap opera known...

• 8/30 PaulLebowitz.com: MLB September Stories To Watch, Part I: Justin Verlander‘s MVP candidacy. I went into the reasons why Verlander is a worthy candidate here. Jon Heyman of Sports...
• 8/29 PaulLebowitz.com: Billy Beane And The Cubs Are A Match Made In _________: It’s a match made in blank because we don’t know. How will a Billy Beane with money at his disposal function differently...
• 8/24 Baseball Reality Tour: The Cubs Opportunity: In the aftermath of Jim Hendry's dismissal, it's clear the Cubs are looking for a big name that is respected, from a winning background,...
• 8/24 PaulLebowitz.com: Stop Enabling Billy Beane: Just stop it. It’s enough already. The latest set of alibis for Billy Beane and Moneyball comes from Tyler Kepner in today’s...
• 8/24 NY Baseball Digest: Will We Ever See a 100 Stolen Base Player Again?: Shortstop Billy Hamilton is one of the Reds top prospects. This year he’s starred at the Low-A Dayton affiliate. The offensive...
• 8/22 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Oakland and Cleveland Can’t Work Out Trade for Harden: You heard it on the Todd Van Poppel Rookie Card Retirement Plan first but Rich Harden will be a member of the A’s for the...
• 8/22 PaulLebowitz.com: The Cubs’ GM Search: Speculation as to whom the Cubs are going to hire isn’t enough; it’s already turned into the media and fans trying...
• 8/19 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Brian Fuentes Must be Tradeable: The New York Yankees want left-handed pitching. If this isn’t apparent to you by now you have missed something all summer....
• 8/18 PaulLebowitz.com: MLB Draft Dollars And The Strategy Of Spending: Why do I get the feeling that with all the talk about clubs spending, spending and spending some more in the MLB Draft, that 2011...
• 8/17 PaulLebowitz.com: Billy Beane Is Not Ready For His Closeup: Tom Verducci took great care to rub Billy Beane‘s ego just the right way in the latest piece to justify Beane’s supposed ”genius”—a...
• 8/15 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Hideki Matsui’s Future in Oakland: In an article in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle John Shea wrote this, “ESPN’s Buster Olney reported Hideki...
• 8/15 NY Baseball Digest: Evaluating Eric Chavez, Beating Tampa at Their Own Game, Jason Marquis and Mets Starters: Eric Chavez has been a great story (.293/1/15) off the bench for the Yankees. Art Stapleton of The Record informs us that Chavez...
• 8/11 PaulLebowitz.com: C.J. Wilson As Mouthy Smurf: Judging from this, Rangers pitcher C.J. Wilson doesn’t like Oakland. That dislike includes the team, the fans, the mound...
• 8/9 PaulLebowitz.com: Reyes’s Key Word: Recurrent: Jose Reyes hasn’t pulled his hamstring once. He’s pulled it numerous times and required surgery to repair having torn...
• 8/8 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Possible Waiver Deal – Rich Harden?: Rich Harden was nearly traded to the Red Sox prior to the deal being nixed at the last moment by Theo Epstein and the Sox. The...
• 8/3 Mets360.com: Mets Card of the Week: 1986 Billy Beane: 1986 DONRUSS BILLY BEANE “Moneyball” opens in September, and this bit of Billy Beane hagiography is the first film ever to...
• 8/3 PaulLebowitz.com: That’s Not Moneyball, It’s MacBeth: What’s worse than a bully? A bully who’s tough and loud and out-front when he’s on top, but starts whining and...
• 8/3 PaulLebowitz.com: Viewer Mail 8.3.2011: Brendan writes RE Brian Cashman, Derek Jeter and the Yankees: “What if he’s not there to be the one voice to prevent Randy...
• 8/3 NY Baseball Digest: Selig’s Plan to Stop the Yankees, Frustrating Fish, Arthur Rhodes, Importance of Lucas Duda: Freakonomics conducted a  Quorum. We rounded up a handful of sports economists and asked them the following question: What proposed...
• 8/1 PaulLebowitz.com: Billy Beane Returns To The Moneyball Basics…: Just in time for the movie too. Except he’s doing it without the winning and “genius”. I guess it’s not...

• 7/31 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Brandon Allen Freed by Billy Beane:   This trade has been finalized. The player in question is not saying he is pitching today, tomorrow or next Tuesday in Seattle....
• 7/31 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Not So Fast, Harden Deal is Off: Rich Harden is not going to the Red Sox. Lars Anderson is not going to the Athletics. The player to be named later will forever...
• 7/29 PaulLebowitz.com: Politics And Baseball: Watching this burgeoning disaster/insurrection of the Republican Party in the battle over the debt ceiling and I think back to...
• 7/28 PaulLebowitz.com: MLB Trade Deadline Stories 7.28.2011: Are you buying this? I’m not buying this. Some of these rumors are so ridiculous that they couldn’t possibly be true...
• 7/27 PaulLebowitz.com: Soxfinger, Tony Tantrum And Another Casualty Of Moneyball: Let’s do this in order. First the White Sox traded Edwin Jackson and Mark Teahen to the Blue Jays for veteran righty reliever...
• 7/27 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: What If the A’s Aren’t Sellers and Beane Holds?: In her recap for yesterday’s victory over the Tampa Bay Rays, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle while talking...
• 7/26 PaulLebowitz.com: MLB’s James Bond Villain Issues A Threat And Other Deadline Stories: “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!!” With Kenny Williams as Soxfinger; Jack Zduriencik as Dr. Evil; Joel Sherman...
• 7/22 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s @ Yankees Game 99: 10:50PM EDT: Thankfully this game is over. That’s all there is to say. A’s lose their eleventh straight versus New...
• 7/22 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Heyman on Athletics on the Move and on Athletics Staying Put: In his “Daily Scoop” piece at SportsIllustrated.com, Jon Heyman reiterates some rumors we’ve heard before and...
• 7/18 My Pinstripes: FullCountPitch - GMs, Man Your Phones!: It’s less than two weeks until the annual MLB trade deadline, the time when buyers and sellers mani**** their rosters to make...
• 7/18 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Pirates Rumors Continue for Willingham and now Jackson: The rumor mill saying that the Pirates are interested in Josh Willingham continue, but we can add another Athletic bat they have...
• 7/17 PaulLebowitz.com: Dayton Moore’s Strengths Are Su**** By His Weaknesses: Baseball’s lower-echelon is inhabited by a “genius” (Billy Beane‘s Athletics are dreadful); an “Amazin’...
• 7/16 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: Angels @ A’s Game 95: 8:11PM PDT: Sizemore hits it into the gap in right-center. Game over as Pennington scores the winning run. A’s win 4-3!...
• 7/16 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: With Season Lost Could Andrew Bailey Be Arlington Bound?:   Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News today had an interesting blog post titled “A’s Andrew Bailey among Rangers...
• 7/16 MetsToday.com: Jason Isringhausen: Circle Complete: Jason Isringhausen is not supposed to be in discussion to close for the Mets. Jason Isringhausen is not supposed to be in baseball....
• 7/15 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: Angels @ A’s Game 93: 8:45PM PDT: Weeks needs some help on the basepaths. He steals second but slides way too late, and this headfirst stuff sliding...
• 7/15 PaulLebowitz.com: MLB Trade Deadline Rules To Live By: And/or die by. Here’s a logical and well-reasoned list of rules that teams should adhere to when assessing whether or not...
• 7/14 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Examining the Trade Values of Oakland’s Trade Chips:   This post is entirely inspired by a solid piece on USS Mariner where their team investigated the Mariners’ trade...
• 7/12 PaulLebowitz.com: The Wrath Of Sandy: As smart as Sandy Alderson is, it’s doubtful even he knew what he was walking into when he took the job as Mets General...
• 7/12 YankeeAnalysts.com: Addressing the Yankees’ Areas of Need: Pitching: Last year at the All-Star break I did a three-part series taking a look at the Yankees’ perceived areas of weakness and...
• 7/6 PaulLebowitz.com: Under The Radar Available(?): The obvious names are out there and available via trade. You’ve got the pending free agents for struggling teams (Casey...
• 7/5 PaulLebowitz.com: Precision Strikes 7.5.2011: The Marine backhand. Since Joel Sherman of the NY Post has speculated on every possible configuration of the end of the Jose Reyes...
• 7/1 PaulLebowitz.com: Precision Strikes 7.1.2011: Reality. Unless something major happens, I’ll tone down my Billy Beane/Moneyball rhetoric and save it all up for my book....

• 6/29 PaulLebowitz.com: Viewer Mail 6.29.2011: Norm writes RE David Wright and the Mets: While I agree that Wright should never be traded by the Mets, I think Ricciardi is just...
• 6/29 PaulLebowitz.com: The Kid Who Wouldn’t Share: I don’t pick on Mike Francesa just for the sake of it as many others do. A lot of times, it’s done with a clear and...
• 6/27 PaulLebowitz.com: Acme Baseball Team Building: In the months preceding the opening of the film Moneyball, it’s grown satirical that the entire Billy Beane myth is coming...
• 6/26 PaulLebowitz.com: Precision Strikes 6.26.2011: Sedition. While I’m aware my resistance will be frowned up on by the self-proclaimed “gatekeeper” Jason Zillo—Yankees...
• 6/20 Cubs Stats: Moneyball: The Movie, The Trailer: I am a big fan of the book Moneyball and fully anti**** to hate the upcoming movie. Reasons? Glad you asked: (1) Hollywood loves...
• 6/14 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Decisions, Decisions (Roster and Medical):   Very quickly, the A’s had good news today. Following Brett Anderson‘s meeting with Dr. James Andrews, Brett...
• 6/11 PaulLebowitz.com: The Jose Reyes Chronicles, 6.11.2011: Jose, JoseJoseJose…Jo….se……Joooooseeeeeeeeee…. Truth. While there were reasons he wasn’t able...
• 6/10 PaulLebowitz.com: Passing The BuckBall: At what point are marketability and re**** trumped by results and overt alibis absolving oneself of blame? I was wrong about one...
• 6/9 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Bob Geren Sacked!: Bob Geren is no longer the manager of your 2011 A’s. The news was somewhat surprising as the common thought was that Geren,...
• 6/9 PaulLebowitz.com: Call The Cops: It’s punishable by 8 years in prison to allow Orioles closer Kevin Gregg to record a save with a 1-2-3 inning. Rightfully...
• 6/8 Mets360.com: Mets Card of the Week: 1995 Paul Wilson: 1995 TOPPS Paul Wilson By now everyone knows the Mets took Brandon Nimmo as their first-round pick in the 2011 Draft. Everyone...
• 6/7 PaulLebowitz.com: Swift And Deadly 6.7.2011: The MLB Draft and destruction of legendary tales. I…I’m almost unable to speak; to fathom; to understand. The new...
• 6/5 PaulLebowitz.com: Manager Billy: In a destructive fashion that almost appears intentional, Billy Beane has taken steps to dismantle the aura of genius created...
• 6/3 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Managing Matsui to Fail: I frequently criticize and question manager Bob Geren and today is no different. Today’s topic: the use of Hideki Matsui....
• 6/1 PaulLebowitz.com: And Jose Reyes As Babe Ruth: Judging from the reaction in fan and media circles, you’d think the Mets are running the risk of losing Babe Ruth rather...

• 5/31 PaulLebowitz.com: Swift And Deadly 5.31.2011: The titles to these attempts at brief, short bursts of valuable information is a work-in-progress. I alter my approach and find...
• 5/24 PaulLebowitz.com: New Yorkered: Did you hear? Mets owner Fred Wilpon allowed New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin insider access for a piece in the new issue—link—and...
• 5/20 PaulLebowitz.com: Batter Down: Where’s the genius? Why can’t the Athletics score? They made acquisitions to improve a moribund offense, but still...
• 5/15 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: River Cats @ Sounds Photos and Comments: As I wrote earlier, no live blogging this weekend as I am in Music City – Nashville, Tennessee. The Sacramento River Cats...
• 5/11 PaulLebowitz.com: Sherman World: It takes a special kind of audacity to retrospectively wonder what would’ve happened had the Yankees exercised Lance Berkman‘s...
• 5/10 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s @ Rangers Game 37: 7:24PM CDT: Nice strikeout of Michael Young on the breaking pitch in the dirt there. One inning in and Anderson doesn’t...

• 4/28 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Understocked Manager at Overstock.com Coliseum: The Oakland A’s return home tomorrow to the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, except that it is no longer the Oakland-Alameda...
• 4/23 PaulLebowitz.com: Early Season Blues And Blahs: This morning I focused on the “oohs and ahs”; now it’s time for the blues and blahs. The Yankees starting pitching...
• 4/13 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: The Beane Era Bullpen: Yesterday when discussing the recent struggles of Craig Breslow, I highlighted how he started this season with two meltdowns - incidentally...
• 4/5 NY Baseball Digest: Former Mets Prospects Work Ethic Catches Up With Him: Nearly seven years later Scott Kazmir still is a topic of conversation around here. Dealt to Tampa Bay for Victor Zambrano in...

• 3/31 PaulLebowitz.com: Watchfulness: With the season starting today, here are some early season things to keep an eye on. Don’t say you weren’t warned....
• 3/29 PaulLebowitz.com: Theories: Research is important. And today, it’s easy. With that in mind, I have to wonder why writers insist on twisting facts to...
• 3/26 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Ringolsby and his Backhanded Compliment to the A’s: Tracy Ringolsby, who has spent most of his recent years covering the Colorado Rockies and now more national topics for FoxSports,...
• 3/26 PaulLebowitz.com: Fast And Loose: Ken Rosenthal writes about the Oakland Athletics and their manager Bob Geren in this column on Foxsports.com. Within the piece...
• 3/23 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Extending Daric Barton: As anyone who is a frequent reader would know, I love Daric Barton. He is my favorite position player member of the team and I...
• 3/21 Pitchers Hit Eighth: UCB – AL Projections: This might be my favorite United Cardinal Bloggers project ever, because I wrote this back in December of 2010.  Copy/paste and...
• 3/19 PaulLebowitz.com: Book Review—The Extra 2% By Jonah Keri: There are easy and convenient explanations from both side of the spectrum in baseball analysis as to how the Tampa Bay Rays were...
• 3/16 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Eric Chavez, One-Time Future Hall of Famer: Joel Sherman (one of my favorite writers and I say this every time I mention him) had a great article today about new-to-the-Yankees...
• 3/14 PAAPFLY: View from the other side of the Bay: Dan Hennessey of the Oakland A’s blog Baseballin’ on a Budget – the same of Rob Neyer’s (abandoned) baby: The SweetSpot...
• 3/11 PaulLebowitz.com: Viewer Mail 3.11.2011: Norm writes RE Moneyball and stat guys: I have to support Paul here. The reason Billy Beane is his white whale or even bete noire...
• 3/10 PaulLebowitz.com: Viewer Mail 3.10.2011: Mike Fierman writes RE Moneyball, Billy Beane and me: May I say that you seem obsessed with Beane. he’s just not worth the amount...
• 3/10 YankeeAnalysts.com: Another take on Will Leitch’s Brian Cashman profile in New York Magazine: Matt I. addressed this topic in an excellent post on Monday, but I didn’t get around to reading Will Leitch’s profile...
• 3/10 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: March 15th and the Conor Jackson Decision: Conor Jackson is now 1-for-23 in Cactus League play which gives him a pretty hollow .043/.120/.043 slash line. A few weeks ago...
• 3/9 PaulLebowitz.com: Tougher Than Diamonds And Stronger Than Steel: No. I’m not referring to myself. I’m naturally referring to the power of love!!! (In case you’re unaware, the...
• 3/7 YankeeAnalysts.com: A look at the 2011 Oakland Athletics: Note: For previous Yankee Analyst 2011 team previews, click here. The 2010 Oakland Athletics (81-81, 2nd place in the AL West)...
• 3/6 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s @ Padres ST Game 7.5:   1:21PM MDT: Despite the lack of visuals (Padres online boards say the game is being televised live if you are in San Diego,...
• 3/6 Baseball Musings: Picking on the Rays: Why is the head of the MLBPA going after the Rays? The executive director of baseball’s players’ association said...
• 3/5 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Peter Gammons, Stick to the Red Sox: In a podcast on WEEI (the radio home of the Boston Red Sox) yesterday, Peter Gammons (whom I frankly haven’t ever been a...
• 3/4 PaulLebowitz.com: Viewer Mail 3.4.2011: The Other Mike in The Bleacher Seats writes RE Cliff Lee and Yankees fans: The Yankee fan reaction reminds me of a controlling...
• 3/4 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Billy Beane Still Hates Bunting: There were several good pieces of news this week. First off we will no longer have Daric Barton bunting anymore – prayer...
• 3/3 PaulLebowitz.com: Executive Perception: The nature of the job in being a baseball executive is such that it’s no longer a “baseball guy” who can sit...
• 3/1 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Race for Fifth: Round One: So everyone in the running for the fifth starter position with the exception of the injured Rich Harden has had a go on the mound....

• 2/28 Baseball Press: Fantasy Prep 2011: Outfield Options on Draft Day: The J-Hey Kid will be a must-pick for years to come. (Getty)Public Service Announcement:Today's entry continues a series of...
• 2/28 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Scouting the Mets: On Athletics Nation a famous pasttime this offseason was to discuss how the A’s were going to get one David Wright, third...
• 2/25 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Revisiting the “Moneyball Draft”: The book Moneyball focused a lot of attention on the 2002 Amateur Draft and the A’s and Billy Beane in particular’s...
• 2/19 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Available Middle Infielders: David Eckstein in Green and Gold? What about Willy Aybar? Cristian Guzman? These are the cream of your crop for free-agent middle...
• 2/17 Baseball Press: Dr. Lineup: The 2011 Oakland Athletics: Coco Crisp will lead off for Oakland in 2011 (Getty)Dr. Lineup dissects the batting orders of various major league teams and...
• 2/17 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Third Base Trade Targets: Yesterday I also managed to sneak in a question to Ben Nicholson-Smith in the MLBTradeRumors.com chat. Given the focus of that...
• 2/16 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Cameron: Not High on Barton: I got three questions/comments in today on the Fangraphs chat with Dave Cameron. First off, he mentioned in another question about...
• 2/15 Jason's Baseball Blog: What Value Would the Trading of Draft Picks Add?: Over at Minor League Ball, John Sickels interviewed Athletics GM Billy Beane, and this little nugget really caught my eye: SICKELS:...
• 2/14 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Beane Comments on Club: Minor League Ball on SB Nation had an interview with A’s GM Billy Beane today. The interview was very good and covered some...
• 2/14 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Keri Comments on Willingham and Bailey: Jonah Keri had a chat today over at Fangraphs and I managed to sneak in two questions. They weren’t the two I wanted to...
• 2/9 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Crasnick: B’s for A’s: Jerry Crasnick finally got to the American League West today in his ESPN series on grading the offseasons of every division. Here’s...
• 2/9 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Sporting News Give A’s Top Spot: The Sporting News also had their offseason “grades” released today. They just ranked the teams as opposed to giving...
• 2/7 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Do You Make a Deal With the Devil?: Well not quite the devil, but your in-division rivals? MLBTradeRumors.com highlights an Olney tweet that says the Rangers still...
• 2/7 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Yankees Want Gio Gonzalez: Ken Rosenthal tweeted this morning that following the retirement of LHP Andy Pettitte, the Yankees are looking into the trade...
• 2/7 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Michael Young Looks to Leave Arlington: Destination Oakland?: T.R. Sullivan wrote a report at MLB.com that again discusses the rumor that Michael Young‘s days in Texas are limited. This...
• 2/1 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: It Has Been No Holliday: As promised here sometime recently, I said I would analyze the trades and associated trades involved with Matt Holliday and his...

• 1/31 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: We Have Gold! Well, Canary Yellow…: Hat tip to elmaquino (check out his great blog about the Cardinals where all A’s end up some way or another anyhow) for...
• 1/31 PaulLebowitz.com: Sunday Lightning 1.30.2011: Theater of the idiotic: The carping between the Yankees and Rangers is like one of those arguments of indefinable origin that...
• 1/22 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Papelbon, Bailey and the A’s Bullpen That Never Was: Yesterday, before everyone wanted to become trading partners with Tony Reagins, there was an article by Jon Heyman on SI.com where...
• 1/20 PaulLebowitz.com: Blind And Blockheaded: Carl Pavano agreed to a 2-year, $16.5 million deal to remain with the Twins yesterday. But that’s not the story regarding...
• 1/20 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Duchscherer to the A’s?: Could Justin Duchscherer be on his way back to the A’s? Jerry Crasnick tweeted yesterday: “Justin Duchscherer, who...
• 1/19 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Tolleson’s DFA Leaves Oakland Infield Sparse: The A’s added Brian Fuentes today so we knew someone had to be bumped off of the 40-man roster and much to my surprise it...
• 1/18 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Mortensen Designated for Assignment:   I did not see this move coming. We knew something had to give and someone had to go as the deal for Grant Balfour was announced...
• 1/18 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Is Enough Ever Enough?: A day after adding Grant Balfour to an already strong bullpen, Billy Beane is at it again with FoxSports reporting today that...
• 1/18 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: What Additional Bullpen Depth Means for the A’s Trading Abilities: The A’s are close to signing Brian Fuentes report numerous sources. While bullpen depth is always great to have, especially...
• 1/18 PaulLebowitz.com: Hollywood, Publishing, Baseball: How long will it take? Out of convenience and profound lack of innate knowledge, how many people will conflate into one the 2011...
• 1/15 PaulLebowitz.com: Full Autonomy: No one has it. At least not in the “full” sense; not in the context of doing whatever they want without interference...
• 1/3 NY Baseball Digest: Rickey Henderson: True or False: This is a fun clip I found via Fangraphs where ESPN’s Mike & Mike quiz Rickey Henderson on some of the stories that...

• 12/18 YankeeAnalysts.com: A's trade for Yankeeist favorite Josh Willingham: Billy Beane and I seem to covet a lot of the same players. First Ben Sheets, then David DeJesus and now Josh Willingham. I...
• 12/17 PaulLebowitz.com: Freed From The Shackles: The cage of expectations; the confinement of lies: Despite the ancillary benefits of fame, fortune and idol worship, one has...
• 12/17 Baseball Musings: The Flesh is Willingham: The Oakland Athletics obtained another outfielder: The A’s, continuing their quest to upgrade their offense, have acquired outfielder...
• 12/16 PaulLebowitz.com: Gutted: You can't dance through the raindrops forever: Every year the Twins are contenders based on intelligence, execution and some...
• 12/15 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Pre-Preseason Predictions: Why wait until Spring to make silly predictions?  I can make silly predictions now, and maybe everybody will forget my predictions...
• 12/14 My Pinstripes: BD Hot Stove: The Repercussions of Phil Lee: The fallout from Cliff Lee signing with Philadelphia can be heard today from Texas to New York to Boston and everywhere in between....

• 11/16 PaulLebowitz.com: Peripherals: The Pirates gain is the Mets gain as well: Clint Hurdle was said to be one of the finalists to be the next manager of the New...
• 11/16 PaulLebowitz.com: Sunday Lightning 11.14.2010: We've gone beyond moving the goalposts: It's gotten to the point where they're tearing apart the whole field and starting...
• 11/9 PaulLebowitz.com: Irony: I do not fear Twilight Zone-level irony... Twilight Zone-level irony should fear me. Some may believe it's going to be...

• 10/31 PaulLebowitz.com: Sunday Lightning 10.31.2010: The Moneyball bodycount: Like a disease whose true casualty rate is only known years after the fact when all the after-effects...
• 10/11 PaulLebowitz.com: Buyer Beware: Hiring Sandy Alderson would take the Mets places... ...but it may not be places they want to go. Amid all the talk and...
• 10/5 PaulLebowitz.com: Bloodletting: Fired... ...or technically, their contract options were not exercised or their teams chose to "head in another direction"....
• 10/3 PaulLebowitz.com: Sunday Lightning 10.3.2010: Where wings meet dream: The above line is from Will Ferrell's Broadway show, "You're Welcome America. A Final Night with...
• 10/2 PaulLebowitz.com: Is This A Shock?: Big changes for the Mets----no kidding!!!! I understand that it's a large market club that's been through the ringer in the...

• 9/22 PaulLebowitz.com: Expertise In The Form Of Hilarity: Analysts----so much like us: Where would be be without experts? Self-anointed or credible, they provide a consistent wealth...
• 9/17 PaulLebowitz.com: Who WANTS That Job?: No, I'm not talking about the Mets: Not really. The Mets are folded into the question be necessity, but the question isn't...
• 9/7 PaulLebowitz.com: The Paul Effect: The Paul Effect (pôl -f kt), adj.---A syndrome named for Paul (The Prince of New York) Lebowitz related to and caused by an...

• 8/31 PaulLebowitz.com: Objective Analysis: A non-partisan, factual look at Billy Beane: Since there are still so many misapplied perceptions about Oakland Athletics...
• 8/7 PaulLebowitz.com: Hollywood!!!: It's AAALLLLLLL GOOOOOOD!!!!!! I got an Email yesterday from a fan who doesn't like his name revealed in the Viewer Mail...

• 7/27 Baseball Press: Ten Signs of a Trade Deadline Obsession: The final day of July is a special time of year for baseball fans, as it marks the final day of the non-waiver trade period. ...