Oakland Athletics

Wild Card American League Oakland Athletics @ Kansas City Royals The first of the two wild card games features two teams that had very different paths into the postseason. The Royals finally ended their drought of not making the playoffs since 1985, meanwhile the Athletics once appeared to be on their way to another AL west division title and…

For the first four months of the 2014 season, the Oakland Athletics appeared to have already won the A.L. West and simply had to play out the remaining schedule to determine their opponents in the ALDS. The Athletics traded away their top prospect, shortstop Addison Russell, to the Chicago Cubs for starters Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel. They…

On July 31st the Oakland Athletics were not only the AL West division leaders, they were also the team with the best record in baseball (66-41). It appeared that no one was going to stop them as they began to dream of finally winning a world series and finish off the amazing story of "Moneyball". But many fans were upset and others shocked by the…

As the season enters and passes through July each year, Major League Baseball general managers assess their teams' progress and chances of making the postseason. Now that MLB has three division winners and two wild cards in each league, teams do not give up players as easily as they used, but the wheeling and dealing do continue. The 2014 season …