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Athletics All-Star Catcher Could Miss Rest of Season With Knee Injury

Another injury blow for the Athletics. On Sunday morning, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported that Athletics All-Star catcher Shea Langeliers has a torn meniscus in his knee.

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Langeliers is expected to have surgery that will either leave him absent for a lengthy amount of time (6-8 weeks) or the rest of the season.

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Teams interested in trading for catcher can cross Langeliers off wish list

Teams interested in trading for catcher can cross A's Shea Langeliers off wish list

His name has been circulating in trade rumors before the Aug. 3 deadline.

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Report: A's C Shea Langeliers (knee) could miss rest of season

Athletics' All-Star catcher Shea Langeliers could miss the remainder of the season after tearing the meniscus in his right knee while running the bases, ESPN reported on Sunday morning.

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Athletics All-Star goes down with major injury

This development involving the 28-year-old affects not only the Athletics’ play on the field but also the front office’s plans, as he was viewed as one of the team’s top trade chips.

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Winners and Losers: The All-Star Break Is a Reset Button, and Resets Cut Both Ways

The All-Star break means different things to different players. If one of your players is red hot, you hate to have a four-day pause in the middle of his streak.

Shea Langeliers News / MLB Trade Rumors / July 26

Shea Langeliers Suffers Torn Meniscus, Could Miss Rest Of Season

The Athletics announced today that All-Star catcher Shea Langeliers has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a torn meniscus in his right knee. The move, which is retroactive to July 25th, sees catcher Brian Serven recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas.

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A's Major Roster Moves Hint at Impending Deadline Trade

With the deadline coming up very soon, we are already starting to see the Athletics make some serious moves. The Athletics are in a very awkward spot, to say the least.

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The 20 greatest MLB teams to never win the World Series

Even the most successful regular-season teams in Major League Baseball have failed to win it all. Here's our list of 20 such clubs that fall into that category.

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Twins shuffle rotation ahead of finale vs. Athletics

The Minnesota Twins will try to win a series with their rotation facing a mound of uncertainty. The next test for the Twins will arrive Sunday afternoon when they take on the Athletics in the decisive contest of a three-game series in Minneapolis.

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Athletics Show Promise in Shutout Win Over Minnesota

Wins have been few and far between, but when the Athletics get one, it feels good. The Athletics have been up and down all season and are currently trying to dig themselves out of their 10-game losing streak, which ended only a few games ago.

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A’s Drop Game 2 as Offense Fails Patchwork Pitching

Even though many things were starting to go right, the Athletics would be unable to parlay their momentum into Saturday. The A's need something to give soon.

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This Former Athletics Closer Could Rejoin their Bullpen

The A's are in the midst of some midseason struggles, and they need all of the help they can get to turn their bullpen around. The trade deadline is right around the corner, but the A's will likely not be in the market for a reliever specifically, but will certainly look to add some help to their pitching staff as a whole.

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Mark Cuban Buys A’s Stake: What It Means for Vegas

The Athletics are geared up and ready for a move to Las Vegas for the 2028 season, and there were a lot of unclear factors about how the move would be funded, and now it looks like there are some answers to that.

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MLB roundup: Salvador Perez breaks Royals' all-time homers record

Nick Loftin hit a go-ahead homer in the ninth, Salvador Perez set the franchise home run record and the visiting Kansas City Royals squeaked by the Detroit Tigers 3-2 on Saturday.

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Alan Roden provides only runs in Twins' low-scoring defeat of A's

Alan Roden delivered a two-run single in the sixth inning, and that was all the Minnesota Twins needed for a 2-0 win over the Athletics on Saturday evening in Minneapolis.

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Twins Shut Out A’s 2-0 to Even Series

The Athletics matched up against the Minnesota Twins in the second game of their three-game series, looking to build on their series-opening victory. This game played out the inverse of Friday night’s contest, as the A’s struggled with runners in scoring position in a 2-0 loss that sets up Sunday’s series finale to be the rubber match.