The Oakland Athletics will not renew the contracts of bench coach Joel Skinner, hitting coach Gerald Perry and pitching coach Ron Romanick, the team announced Friday.
Via Pro Sports Daily
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September 30, 2011
The Oakland Athletics cut ties with three coaches on Friday.
The team will not renew the contracts of bench coach Joel Skinner, hitting coach Gerald Perry and pitching coach Ron Romanick.
All three coaches had been hired by Bob Geren, who was fired in June and replaced by Bob Melvin.
The Athletics signed Melvin to a three-year contract earlier this week.
Oakland also announced...
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October 01, 2011
If there is one team that could entice Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane into leaving Oakland, it's probably the LA Angels, not the Chicago Cubs.
Beane practically would be going home; he is from San Diego. He finally would be joining a high-revenue franchise. Yet in Anaheim, he would face little of the outsized pressures that he would experience in an intense market...
Via Deadspin
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September 30, 2011
Although advanced baseball analysis had been around for years, Michael Lewis's 2003 book Moneyball, about the Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane's using it to build their roster, helped to start an online industry of carping about player evaluation and team structure. The release of the 2011 film adapted from it has similarly started...
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October 01, 2011
A few items of note regarding AL West clubs, as the division's sole postseason representative, the Rangers, take on the Rays in Arlington.
Morale in the Angels' front office had waned under former GM Tony Reagins, who resigned Friday, sources tell Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports, and the organization's direction seemed vague. Reagins may not have been ready for the job...
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