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• A's Show Signs Of Life, but Is It Sign of Bright Future in Oakland?
• By Jeff Fletcher 9/22/2009 10:00 AM ET
• OAKLAND -- The A's rebuilding plan may appear to be progressing quickly with the team's hot streak, but don't expect GM Billy Beane to make any big splashes on marquee players this winter to fill out ... More »
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• Jason Giambi Released by Oakland
• By Matt Snyder 8/07/2009 2:08 PM ET
• After signing a free agent deal with the Oakland A's prior to the start of the 2009 season, Jason Giambi has endured a rough season. It just got a bit worse, as Giambi has been released by the A's. He ... More »
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• The 'Moneyball' Movie Is On Again
• By Jeff Fletcher 7/10/2009 12:26 AM ET
• Weeks after the dramatic last-minute shelving of the Moneyball movie, Sony Pictures has unshelved it. The movie is back on again, this time with Aaron Sorkin writing the screenplay. Brad Pitt is still ... More »
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• Here's Your 'Moneyball' Movie Script, Sex Scene Included
• By Jeff Fletcher 6/24/2009 3:24 PM ET
• Although the big movie studios have all balked at putting the best-selling baseball book 'Moneyball' on the silver screen, one of the versions of a screenplay for the movie has surfaced on Hollywood ... More »
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• Prospects or Draft Picks for Holliday?
• By Jeff Fletcher 6/16/2009 2:43 PM ET
• Billy Beane's public position has always been that the A's were happy to keep Matt Holliday until the end of the season, even if they weren't contending, because he could get the draft picks as ... More »
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• Youth Served in Oakland Rotation
• By Jeff Fletcher 6/07/2009 10:30 PM ET
• OAKLAND -- The future has arrived a little early for the A's pitching staff. A team that looked awful as recently as a few weeks ago is suddenly on a roll, having won six games in a row, largely on ... More »
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• Billy Beane Sees the Silver Lining
• By Jeff Fletcher 5/25/2009 4:15 PM ET
• OAKLAND -- Billy Beane, whose team hit Memorial Day in last place, with the second worst record in the American League, is willing to overlook such pesky details. "The most important thing we had to ... More »
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• From the Windup: Trade Season Nears
• By Matt Snyder 5/21/2009 11:00 AM ET
• From the Windup is Matt Snyder's extended look at some aspect of America's pastime each Thursday. With the recent news that Mark DeRosa is on the trade block and the White Sox have possibly landed ... More »
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• Ken Macha Has Brewers Riding High
• By Jeff Fletcher 5/15/2009 3:10 PM ET
• Ken Macha is doing it again. The manager who has never had a losing season -- not as a minor league manager, major league coach or major league manager -- has the Brewers playing some of the best ... More »
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• Billy Beane Chats With FanHouse
• By Jeff Fletcher 4/30/2009 11:30 AM ET
• You might know him as a genius. Or maybe as a revolutionary. Or maybe you simply know him as the general manager of the Oakland Athletics. One way or another, you know Billy Beane. He is arguably the ... More »
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• Padres GM Kevin Towers Marches On
• By Jeff Fletcher 4/23/2009 10:30 PM ET
• SAN DIEGO -- If there were any doubts that Kevin Towers was a baseball lifer, they were answered on his wedding day. Just before exchanging vows with his wife in December 1996, the Padres general ... More »
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• 10 Ways to Improve Moneyball
• By Jeff Fletcher 4/22/2009 7:00 PM ET
• Although I have been hearing for a while that the best-selling book Moneyball" was going to be made into a movie, I never really believed it until seeing on Tuesday that they continue to add actors. I ... More »
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• 'Moneyball' Cast Coming Together
• By Matt Snyder 4/21/2009 2:25 PM ET
• Michael Lewis' book about Billy Beane's strategy in making a small-market team successful in Major League Baseball, "Moneyball," is going to be made into a feature-length movie. Shooting isn't set to ... More »
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• A's Extend Bob Geren's Deal
• By Jeff Fletcher 3/24/2009 2:57 PM ET
• PHOENIX -- The A's announced the previously reported extension of manager Bob Geren's contract Tuesday. Geren, who was in the final year of a three-year deal, is now signed through 2010, with a club ... More »
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• Colorado's Holliday Seems Over
• By Will Brinson 3/15/2009 11:00 PM ET
• FanHouse continues its 2009 MLB Preview with a look at the Colorado Rockies. The Colorado Rockies have long been one of the strangest paradigms of Major League Baseball. They seem to thrive on their ... More »
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• Beware the Dugouts of March: The Oakland Athletics' 2009 Preview
• By B. Thompson Stroud 3/05/2009 6:20 PM ET
• "Spring training is very important. It gives all the Dominican players time to learn how to say 'renegotiate' in English!" "lol /thrusts hips" Hopefully our only look at the AL West this year ... More »
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• Crunching Numbers: FanHouse Chats With Will Carroll of Puck Prospectus
• By Adam Gretz 2/27/2009 8:00 AM ET
• On February 23, 2009, the people that brought us the statistical analysis websites Baseball Prospectus and Basketball Prospectus, launched their hockey counterpart, Puck Prospectus. While hockey is ... More »
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• The A's Are Interested in Orlando Cabrera
• By Pat Lackey 2/03/2009 6:12 PM ET
• The A's really don't want Bobby Crosby to be their starting shortstop. Already this offseason they've tried their hardest to sign Orlando Cabrera and Rafael Furcal and placed Crosby on irrevocable ... More »
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• Defense Is the New On-Base Percentage
• By Andrew Johnson 1/30/2009 10:00 AM ET
• Next Big Thing is MLB FanHouse's look at emerging teams, trends and stars in 2009. Poor Billy Beane. He goes to all the trouble to find and exploit market inefficiencies only to have them become, ... More »
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• A's, Nationals Talk Nick Johnson Trade
• By Andrew Johnson 1/15/2009 4:35 PM ET
• Strange as it might seem, the Oakland Athletics -- the very same club that has built its reputation on jettisoning All-Stars for the better part of the decade -- are pretty clearly in go-for-it-now ... More »
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