An SB Nation blog for Oakland Athletics fans
Morning everyone and happy Wednesday! The regular season for MLB may be over and for most of us that’s all that matters. Wake us up when pitchers and catcher report, you may say. But there is still baseball being played out there! Young position players and pitchers still hard at work refining their tools and […]
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Baseball is the ultimate “talking sport” partly because it is so nuanced and partly because so often results come down to the tiniest play made — or not made. The 2025 World Series was “one for the ages,” coming, as it almost had to, down to the last play of an extra inning. Regardless of […]
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It will come as no surprise to A’s Nation readers that the Athletics have two of the the three finalists for the Jackie Robinson American League Rookie-of-the-Year Award. On Monday night, MLB announced that Nick Kurtz and Jacob Wilson are both finalists for this year’s award. They are joined by Boston Red Sox outfielder Roman […]
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Morning everyone, and happy Monday! The Athletics had a pair of players nominated as finalists for the Gold Glove at their respective positions. It was a slight surprise but one welcomed by the fan base. Unfortunately neither was able to reel in the prestigious award but being a finalist is still something to be proud […]
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Congrats to the Los Angeles Dodgers on their second straight World Series win! It’s a rare achievement in the history of baseball, a feat that only a few franchises have accomplished. Over the past 70 years it’s happened just six times (one of which was the Athletics’ three-peat in the early 70’s). Well, seven now. […]
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It’s here! What all baseball fans have been hoping for all season. Game 7 of the World Series. The stakes literally don’t get any higher. The reigning champions the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Toronto Blue Jays. One of these teams will be hoisting a trophy at the end of the night while the other looks […]
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Tonight we gain an hour, but we lose baseball for 4 months. Feel free to join Rogers Hornsby and me in staring out the window waiting for spring. But first there’s a game 7 to enjoy and it’s been a heck of a World Series no matter for whom you are rooting or who you […]
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Back in Toronto. Here we go guys. The season could come to an end tonight. The Blue Jays are one win away from their third World Series in franchise history and first since 1993. That’s after falling behind in the series 2-1 and suffering a heart-breaking 18th-inning marathon in Game 3. And to win it […]
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Happy Friday everyone! And Happy Halloween! The 2025 World Series has been one of the fun ones. After the Toronto Blue Jays split their first two games at home against the favorite Los Angeles Dodgers, they went into LA and shocked everyone by taking two of three, and the lone loss was that epic 18-inning […]
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There’s a reason why it’s so rare that teams win back-to-back World Series. It’s Not Easy! The New York Yankees were the last team to pull off a repeat (actually their most recent was a three-peat) in 1998-2000. The last National League team to do it was the Big Red Machine in 1975-76. Diehard A’s […]
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Tied series yet again. This time one team will end the night one more win away from a championship. It’ll be the Game 1 starters going for both teams tonight, a game that Toronto won at home. That means a rematch between rookie right-hander Trey Yesavage and veteran lefty Blake Snell. Neither pitcher was particularly […]
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Morning A’s fans! Last night’s game didn’t take seven hours and it also produced a different end result as the Toronto Blue Jays knotted up the 2025 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers in LA, guaranteeing that this series will head back to Toronto whatever happens tonight in a critical Game 5. Whoever wins […]
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Whew. After last night’s marathon 18-inning contest between the Blue Jays and Dodgers saw Los Angeles pull out the walk-off win, the two teams have a quick turn around as they get set to play again just hours later in Game 4 of the World Series. The Blue Jays, losers of one of the longest […]
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The World Series moved to Los Angeles for Game 3 last night. After the Jays took the lead in the top of the seventh, Shohei Ohtani tied it up in the bottom of the inning with his second homer of the night. It was a back-and-forth game that went to extra innings and continued until […]
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After a day off to travel the Fall Classic continues with Game 3 in Los Angeles where the Dodgers will host the Toronto Blue Jays. The series is tied 1-1 and historically the team that wins the Game 3 tends to go on to win it all more often than not. Stakes are only getting […]
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Good morning A’s fans and happy Monday! The 2025 World Series continues tonight after an off day yesterday for travel. The series is now tied 1-1 after the Los Angels Dodgers took Game 2 in Toronto. The underdog Blue Jays needed both of those first two home games and now will be tasked with winning […]
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The late great Joaquin Andujar, he of the 39 starts for Oakland and epic World Series meltdown with St. Louis, once famously said his favorite word to describe baseball was “You never know”. Youneverknow is indeed a terrific word and probably nothing better characterizes baseball. This was in evidence, as Exhibit Umpteenthousand003, in game 1 […]
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We have finally arrived folks. The Fall Classic is back and this time with the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers squaring off for their first battle in the World Series. Both teams were juggernauts during the regular season so it shouldn’t be all that surprising to see these two squads be the final […]
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Happy Friday A’s fans! The 2025 World Series begins tonight in Toronto as the Blue Jays host the Los Angeles Dodgers for the first game of the series. As the #1 seed the Jays get home-field advantage thus getting to host the first two games before the series shifts to LA. Still, let there be […]
4 months ago | 7 reads
The Silver Slugger finalists across baseball were revealed on Thursday morning and three Athletics saw their names among the contenders for the prestigious award: None of these are a surprise to A’s fans. The trio were the heart of the Athletics order and look like they will be again next year. All three were near-locks […]
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On the eve of the first pitch of the 2025 World Series, two west coast teams have announced their new managerial hires. Former A’s catcher Kurt Suzuki will take the helm of our AL West rival Los Angeles Angels. Suzuki has served as a front office assistant for the team for the past two years. […]
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Morning everyone! The 2025 World Series is officially set, with the American League’s #1 seeded Toronto Blue Jays set to take on the reigning champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers. This should be a great matchup with both teams having a great shot at another title in their histories. For the Blue Jays, a series victory […]
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And then there were two. Unsurprisingly the Los Angeles Dodgers are representing the National League and from a near flatline pulse the Toronto Blue Jays marooned the Mariners en route to their first World Series appearance since 1993. Pundits have quickly dismissed the series as a formality in which the Dodgers will female dog slap […]
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As we all know, the National League Champion was a done deal last week. Some may say even before that, but that’s a different discussion. But last night the two greatest words in baseball were uttered and played out for us all to witness, ‘Game Seven’. There’s nothing like it. And we had a GAME […]
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It’s time. The best two words in sports. Game Seven. The Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays are set to go head-to-head with a trip to the World Series on the line. Buckle up! Toronto has come back twice in this series, from an 0-2 hole and then a 2-3 deficit that they evened yesterday. […]
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