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Author: Brett Walker

Using a Tank to Drive the Team to Vegas Perhaps? – Oakland A’s Mid-Season Report 

July 18, 2022 Brett Walker Baseball, Team Contributors

The All-Star Game marks (roughly) the half-way point of the season for the MLB, so I thought I’d do a progress report on how the A’s are doing. Before the start of the season, I said in my season preview

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The Curious Case of Selecting an A’s All-Star 

June 28, 2022 Brett Walker Baseball, Team Contributors

In recent weeks, the A’s social media channels, along with Glen Kuiper and Dallas Braden during the A’s game broadcasts on NBC Sports California, have been encouraging fans to vote on which A’s player should go to the All-Star game.

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2022 season preview – Oakland Athletics:  There’s a rebuild on the horizon

April 2, 2022 Brett Walker Baseball, Team Contributors

The A’s might surprise some people this season  It looked unlikely at times, but we are actually going to get some major league baseball in 2022 after the league and the MLBPA kicked the can down the road for a

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Is the potential move to Las Vegas worth the gamble?

March 23, 2022 Brett Walker Baseball, Team Contributors

It’s starting look more likely that the Oakland Athletics aren’t going to be in Oakland for much longer; last week, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission’s Seaport Planning Advisory Committee voted 5-4-1 against removing port priority use at

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Hey, Big Spenders: What the free agent moves mean for the league

February 24, 2022 Brett Walker Baseball, Team Contributors

The off-season is usually a hotbed of free agency activity, and we should now be gearing up for the start of pre-season training. However, all of that continues to be on hold due to the ongoing lockout. Perhaps in anticipation

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Athletics find their replacement for Bob Melvin

December 23, 2021 Brett Walker Baseball, Team Contributors

It’s official; The Oakland Athletics have confirmed their new manager, and it’s Mark Kotsay. Fellow A’s fans will remember Kotsay from his role as third-base coach last season, furiously waving players to home base or calling them back to third.

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Rock Bottom for The Athletics – Not A Bit Of It

December 10, 2021 Brett Walker Baseball, Team Contributors

Hey, we have an A’s contributor now! Welcome Brett Walker… It’s that time of year again when the Oakland A’s lose a raft of players to free agency (this year, we have more free agents than any other MLB team

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