That’s another season in the books for the Oakland Athletics. How to describe the A’s season? BFN editor Gavin has already described it as “dismal”, while another A’s fan privately said to me that this article would need to be
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Epic Deadline Day with 29 of the 30 teams making trades. Guess the party pooper?
Here is your five-minute review of the breathless 2022 MLB trade deadline. There is only one place to start and as the great Tim Kurkjian said “you can make a case this is the biggest trade in baseball history.” The
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The Red Sox Are This Season’s Most Intriguing Deadline Story
Flash back two months, and most commentators and evaluators had completely written off the Boston Red Sox. Vultures were ready to pluck clean the arid corpse of a 10-19 team, with the likes of Nathan Eovaldi, J.D. Martinez and even
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Using a Tank to Drive the Team to Vegas Perhaps? – Oakland A’s Mid-Season Report
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
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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A month in baseball. MLB Review: May 2022
Indulge me with five minutes of your time, and we will review the month in MLB together. Which team led MLB with 46 homers? Full marks if you said the Milwaukee Brewers, just ahead of the Los Angeles Angels with
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Episode 281 – Cory Gearrin Joins the Show
Nine-year big leaguer across seven franchises, Cory Gearrin, joins John to talk about his storied career in the bigs and his re-birth as a baseball and mental health guru on Twitter. His path includes a journey through the minors with
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Watching the Oakland Athletics should not be this difficult
As a founding member of the Jorge Mateo fan club, I was very excited when the Athletics home opener against the Orioles (Mateo’s team) coincided with my trip to the bay area. Blessed, as I am with two daughters, I
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Episode 271 – 2022 AL West Preview
For the fourth of our 2022 MLB Previews, we focus on the AL West and are joined by: Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle on the Astros Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register on the Angels Steve Berman of
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30 BOLDish predictions: One for each MLB team
AL WEST Houston Astros Jeremy Pena debuts for the Astros and creates an unstoppable middle-infield pairing with Jose Altuve. Both players hit over .300, and there’s not a single banged trashcan to be heard. Los Angeles Angels Injuries disrupt Mike
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