Adam Rosales' go-ahead homer lifts A's past Royals
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Adam Rosales hit a go-ahead home run leading off the eighth inning, Josh Donaldson also connected and the Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 2-1 on Friday night.
Sean Doolittle (3-0) pitched the eighth for the win in relief of Jarrod Parker as the reigning AL West champions earned just their third victory in the last 11 games.
Oakland finally got...
Michael Taylor Rejoins A’s, Chris Young To the DL, Hiro Nakajima Update
Following the A’s 2-0 shutout of the New York Yankees Friday evening, the A’s had no shortage of news regarding the status of their roster Saturday morning.
Before we get to that though, A.J. Griffin was masterful in his seven innings of work. He allowed six hits and walked just one batter. Griffin struck out four batters. Sean Doolittle pitched an inning and two-thirds of shutout...
Brandon Moss walk-off homer ends 19-inning affair with Angels (Video)
After 19 innings, 6 hours and 32 minutes, 16 runs, 597 pitches, 16 pitchers being used, awful umpiring, inconclusive home run reviews, multiple players on both sides leaving with injuries, stir-crazy fans chanting A’s broadcasters’ names (because why not in the 17th inning?), A’s pitchers going to bat without any remaining position players, Mike Trout comically missing fly...
Yoenis Cespedes Nearing Return For Struggling A’s; Milone Brilliant in Loss to Orioles
Tommy Milone did his part in reversing a trend of bad starting pitching recently by Oakland, tossing 6.2 innings and allowed only one unearned running against the Baltimore Orioles Friday evening to lower his ERA to 3.38 for the season. He struck out five Orioles and walked only one while scattering six hits before surrendering the game to his bullpen.
The only run allowed by the...
Fantasy Baseball Strategy: Turn Middle Relievers Into Ace Starter
To many fantasy players the term Middle Reliever is a foreign concept. Today, my purpose will be to enlighten you and open your eyes to a whole new world of pitching production. If you’ve used middle relievers before, you know what I’m talking about.
A Middle Reliever will be defined as any pitcher who doesn’t start the game and who also doesn’t regularly close out games...
How Sean Doolittle Makes One Pitch Work For Him
Sean Doolittle is a lefty and throws one pitch 87% of the time. Even without knowing his back story — he was a first base prospect that couldn’t stay healthy on the field, and pitching was his chance to “activate his insurance plan” as he put it — you’d be forgiven for throwing the dreaded “LOOGY” moniker on him. First basemen aren’t generally known for their arms...
Oakland has edge in AL West bullpens
Ranking bullpens isn't an easy task because they are normally a year-to-year thing and sometimes even a week-to-week proposition.
But if you look at a bullpen from the closer and work your way back, the edge goes to Oakland because of what the Athletics boast at the back end of their bullpen.
Here's a look at the bullpens in the West and their rankings.
Oakland - A healthy...
X-Factor: Oakland Athletics
The 2012 A's were filled with players that were x-factors. Did anyone think that Brandon Moss would stake a claim to the first base job and become one of the best sluggers in the league? Did anyone think that Josh Reddick, a guy who was a part-time player in Boston in 2011, would become one of the more beloved and dangerous players on the A's? Hell, did anyone think that...
TOC Top Ten: Left-Handed Relief Pitchers
The player that would have been at the top of this list won't be, because the Reds made the wise decision to move Aroldis Chapman to the starting rotation. With the flamethrowing lefty out of the picture, these rankings are wide open. Left-handed relievers are typically specialists, and a lot of them don't typically log a ton of innings, which is what is going to make these...
Bush Joins A's Staff
Hot News for P Sean Doolittle
We Didn't Get Enough Oakland A's Games
A Better Ending Than This One
First things first: congrats to the Tigers, who will get my not ironic, if not total and obsessive, rooting interest now in the American League playoffs, even if they wind up facing the underdog Orioles. (Why? Because it would make more people I know happy, and I only really know one Oriole Fan. Besides, 1983 still burns.) I bear the Tigers no ill will...
The Oakland Athletics Are Showing You Can Win With Less Money, Can They Stop The Tigers 2 More Times?
The Oakland Athletics came back to win a game against the high-priced Detroit Tigers taking game 3 2-0. The Athletics had some great pitching from Brett Anderson,Ryan Cook,Sean Doolittle and Grant Balfour getting through game 3 without letting the Tigers power hitters to score a run. It is this kine of effort that is going to enable the Athletics to beat the Tigers in this series...
A's 2, Tigers 0
OAKLAND -- The Oakland A's took a page out of their postseason past to remain alive in the postseason. It wasn't Catfish Hunter, Ken Holtzman and Rollie Fingers, but Brett Anderson, Ryan Cook, Sean Doolittle and Grant Belfour did a pretty good impression during a 2-0 win over the Detroit Tigers in Game 3 of the American League Division Series on Tuesday night. The four...
A’s Should Also Skip the Starter
A few weeks ago, I advocated for a wild card play-in game strategy that involved beginning the game with a reliever and relying heavily on a team’s bullpen to get them through. In that scenario, we used the Atlanta Braves as the example of how it could work. Well, we’re not yet to the wild card play-in game, but with Texas and Oakland going head to head for the AL West title...
Martin's walk-off homer lifts Yanks
Russell Martin led off the bottom of the 10th inning with a homer off Sean Doolittle, and the AL East-leading New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 2-1 Friday night for their sixth straight win.
Brandon Moss hit a towering home run to right field with one out in the ninth inning off Rafael Soriano to spoil a dominant three-hit outing for CC Sabathia to tie it 1-all, stunning...
Yankees 2, Athletics 1(10)
Russell Martin led off the bottom of the 10th inning with a homer off Sean Doolittle, and the AL East-leading New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 2-1 Friday night for their sixth straight win.
Brandon Moss hit a towering home run to right field with one out in the ninth inning off Rafael Soriano to spoil a dominant three-hit outing for CC Sabathia to tie it 1-all, stunning...
Martin's walk-off homer lifts Yanks
Russell Martin led off the bottom of the 10th inning with a
homer off Sean Doolittle, and the AL East-leading New York Yankees
beat the Oakland Athletics 2-1 Friday night for their sixth
straight win.
2012 Year In Review: David Forst Q&A, Part 2
In part two of our year-in-review conversation with Oakland A's Assistant GM David Forst, we discuss some of the A's youngest prospects, as well as some of the players the team acquired during the past off-season and the transformation of Sean Doolittle.
Pitching revived Athletics' Doolittle
After two years spent mostly recovering from a pair of knee surgeries, Sean Doolittle had his bags packed, his car loaded and his apartment cleaned out.
He was finally ready to head from extended spring training in Arizona to Sacramento, sure in his mind that it would be a short stopover before he headed down to Oakland to play first base for the Athletics.
Then, just a day before...
Updated: Minor League Pitching Conversion Projects
Back in mid-March I took a look at some interesting names that were making the conversion from minor league hitters to pitchers. The biggest success, so far, has been the emergence of Oakland’s Sean Doolittle who has now pitched 23.1 big league innings. Let’s see how everyone is doing as the minor league regular season starts to wind down.
Kyler Burke, Chicago Cubs (CF to LHP...
Oakland bullpen is keeping up with surging rotation
Oakland's starters, particularly rookies Jarrod Parker and Tommy Milone, have been getting plenty of ink lately, but the A's bullpen has been just as impressive. The relief corps is also very young. Setup man Grant Balfour is the lone veteran, with lefty Jerry Blevins the second-most experienced member of the unit, with under three years' service time. Oakland'...
Athletics 2, Yankees 1
OAKLAND -- It wasn't a walk-off, but Brandon Inge's solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning powered the Oakland A's to their third consecutive one-run victory over the New York Yankees, a 2-1 triumph Saturday. It pushed the A's MLB-best July record to 13-2. Yankees starting pitcher Phil Hughes was pulled from the game after 7 2/3 innings. He allowed four...
A's 2, Mariners 1 (13)
OAKLAND, Calif. -- It was another walk off win for the Oakland A's, the second of this series. Josh Reddick's double in the bottom of the 13th scored Jemile Weeks from first base as the Athletics outlasted the Seattle Mariners 2-1 on Sunday afternoon. Weeks had singled to right off Oliver Perez. The Athletics are at .500 as they head to the All-Star break, while the...
Baseclogging: Got Heem!
In Jeremy Barfield's latest blog entry, he discusses the first-half pennant race, Sean Doolittle's rise to the majors and a new first in Barfield's career.
Doolittle More Than Just A Good Story
OAKLAND - When Sean Doolittle was drafted by the Oakland A's in the supplemental first round of the 2007 draft, 2012 appeared like a reasonable time for the first baseman to find himself in the big leagues.
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