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World Baseball Classic Rosters Announced
The World Baseball Classic (WBC) rosters were announced yesterday on the MLB Network and MLB.com. There is no shortage of talent taking part in this year’s classic led by current and former league MVP’s. But don’t expect just wily veterans to show up because thirty of MLB Pipeline’s top one hundred prospects have made the […]
Athletics Community Prospect List: Montero Wins 8th-Best In System
*In an effort to make the nomination voting easier for everyone, I will comment, “NOMINATIONS”, and you may reply to that with your picks and upvote the player you’d like to see on the next nominee list. We’re almost done with our top-10 prospects! Shortstop Edgar Montero has won the fan vote for the eighth-best prospect in […]
Elephant Rumblings: Lefties, Lefties, and More Lefties!
MLB News Roundup On the eve of the Detroit Tigers’ arbitration verdict with star pitcher Tarik Skubal, the team decided to go out and make a splash, further bolstering their rotation by picking up the best free agent pitcher on the market. For three years and $115 million, Framber Valdez is no longer a Houston […]
Elephant Rumblings:A’s 2026 Promotions Unveiled
Happy Wednesday A’s Fans. The 2026 season will be year two of the Athletics planned three-year Sacramento sojourn while the organization waits for construction to finish on its new ballpark in Las Vegas. For some fans, one of the highlights of going to a baseball game is the giveaway item they get whether it is […]
Athletics Community Prospect List: Colome Takes Seventh Spot
*In an effort to make the nomination voting easier for everyone, I will comment, “NOMINATIONS”, and you may reply to that with your picks and upvote the player you’d like to see on the next nominee list. The seventh round of voting wasn’t particularly close. Recent international signee Johenssy Colome ran away with the vote this round, […]
Elephant Rumblings: A’s To-Do List As Offseason Wraps Up
Happy February A’s fans. While the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics are sure to generate most of the immediate sports headlines, we’d be remiss not mention that baseball is back this month! Athletics’ pitchers and catchers must report to Spring Training on February 12. The team will hold its first full-squad workout just a few […]
Elephant Rumblings: J-Willy Contract and Who’s on Third?
It’s Monday! The work week has arrived and with it comes the news from this past weekend. Surely Jacob Wilson’s 7 year/ $70 million contract extension was the biggest story to dominate the news cycle. All anyone could talk about was the A’s locking up their prized young short stop, right? Wait, what’s that? Something […]
Extensions For Everyone! (Except Kurtz)
OK, they haven’t yet landed The Big Kahuna” and it may well be that Nick Kurtz’ asking price for an extension is prohibitive — even if fair. But you can’t say the A’s aren’t making good on their wish to ‘hang onto their young players’ in this new era of homelessness and anticipation. Jacob Wilson […]
Athletics Community Prospect List: Bolte Finds His Spot At #6
*In an effort to make the nomination voting easier for everyone, I will comment, “NOMINATIONS”, and you may reply to that with your picks and upvote the player you’d like to see on the next nominee list. Well he finally got his spot on our annual list. Outfielder Henry Bolte comes in as the obvious pick for […]
Athletics Sign Jacob Wilson To Extension
The A’s are reportedly on the verge of extending another one of their young stars. Shortstop Jacob Wilson and the team have reportedly agreed to a seven-year extension that ties him to the team for the long haul: The deal will reportedly pay Wilson $70 million overall and gives the team a club option for […]
Athletics Community Prospect List: Nett Just Inches Out Bolte For Sixth Spot
*In an effort to make the nomination voting easier for everyone, I will comment, “NOMINATIONS”, and you may reply to that with your picks and upvote the player you’d like to see on the next nominee list. We’ve now officially completed the first five rounds of this year’s Community Prospect List. Rounding out the top-five is right-handed […]
Elephant Rumblings: Last Call On Offseason Shopping List
Happy Friday A’s fans! The A’s are inching closer and closer to the beginning of the season. First come pitchers and catchers reporting, then the position players, then spring games, and before we know it it’ll be Opening Day with the Athletics lining up on the first base line in Toronto listening to the national […]
Elephant Rumblings: A’s Invite 31 Players to Spring Training
Morning A’s fans! Spring Training is right around the corner with just 13 days until pitchers and catcher report. The rest of the squad reports a few days later and the first games of the season begin shortly after that. The long winter is coming to a close (except for the people on the East […]
Blogfather Sabatoges Own Wins Over Replacement Hip (And A’s Stuff)
So I went into hip replacement surgery last Friday expecting a fairly quick and smooth recovery and spent the weekend wondering why the pain and lack of mobility/range of motion was approximately 10x worse than I had anticipated. Turns out I’m my own worst enemy — which is saying something since those who have been […]
Athletics Community Prospect List: Lin Rockets Up To #4
*In an effort to make the nomination voting easier for everyone, I will comment, “NOMINATIONS”, and you may reply to that with your picks and upvote the player you’d like to see on the next nominee list. Well we are now officially through the first four rounds of our annual Community Prospect List, where A’s […]
Elephant Rumblings: Trade Deadline Set At August 3rd
Morning everyone, and hope you are all doing well. For those of you dealing with the snow, I recommend a trip to California right now, where it’s still cold but at least sunny. We got word late yesterday afternoon that MLB had set the mid-season Trade Deadline later than usual this coming season, setting it […]
Elephant Rumblings: CPL Taking Early Shape
Morning everyone! Our 2026 Community Prospect List is through the first three rounds and there weren’t any surprises in the early going. Shortstop Leo De Vries absolutely dominated the first round of voting to no one’s surprise, taking over 95% of the vote to get things started. Considering he was the #3 overall prospect in […]
Athletics Community Prospect List: Jump Takes Third Spot
Our CPL continues on this bright and beautiful morning and the third spot in our community’s rankings goes to another left-hander in Gage Jump. The Athletics’ second round pick last year had an amazing first season in the professional ranks, starting the year in High-A before getting promoted to Double-A, where he spent the majority […]
Athletics Community Prospect List: Arnold Takes #2 Spot
The second round was a much closer race this time around between left-handers Jamie Arnold and Gage Jump. Arnold came out on top though with roughly 60% of the vote, taking the second overall spot in this year’s Community Prospect List. The 11th overall pick in the draft just this past year, Arnold is further […]
Elephant Rumblings: Rangers Upgrade Rotation With Trade For Gore
Happy Friday A’s fans! In back-to-back days our division rivals have added to their rosters looking to improve their chances for the coming season. Two days ago the Los Angeles Angels came to terms with third baseman Yoan Moncada, bringing back a decent hitter with major health questions hovering over him. Moncada was a potential […]
Athletics Community Prospect List: De Vries Obvious For #1 Spot
Well, the first round of voting was a bit of a non-shocker. Shortstop Leo De Vries absolutely ran away with the top spot on this year’s Community Power Rankings, winning over 95% of the vote en route to being named the top prospect in the Athletics’ system by the fans. It comes as no surprise. […]
Elephant Rumblings: A’s Potential Target Moncada Re-signs With Angels
Morning everyone! Recently we’ve been hearing more and more whispers about the A’s looking to add some more certainty to the lineup. First we got the news that the front office was kicking the tires on a potential Miguel Andujar reunion, followed by a scuttled trade for future Hall of Famer Nolan Arenado. After being […]
Elephant Rumblings: Athletics Reportedly Had Arenado Deal Lined Up Before D-Backs Trade
Morning everyone and welcome to Wednesday! Don’t you love a short week? Yesterday morning we got a report indicating that future Hall of Fame third baseman Nolan Arenado rejected a trade to the Athletics just prior to getting flipped to Arizona instead. Per Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the A’s and Cardinals had come to […]
A’s 2026 Community Prospect List: Here We Go!
It’s that time of year again! Athletics Nation’s annual Community Prospect List time, where you, the fans of our A’s, will get to vote for who is ranked among the farm system’s best and brightest prospects. This year we’ll be going as far as the top-25 in the system. starting with the top prospect and […]
Elephant Rumblings: A’s Interested in Andujar Reunion?
Morning everyone and welcome to a brand new week! Yesterday afternoon we got a morsel of news regarding our A’s. The club apparently hasn’t closed the door on adding another position player as the team was called one of six teams interested in left fielder/DH Miguel Andujar: The former top prospect as you know spent […]
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