Archive for the ‘Oakland Athletics’ Category

Brewers bring in CC

Monday, July 7th, 2008

The Milwaukee Brewers are expected to announce today the acquisiton of C.C. Sabathia from the Cleveland Indians for four minor leaguers, highlighted by 2007 first round pick LF Matt LaPorta, along with two minor league pitchers and a player to be named later. Sabathia, a pending free agent, will ...

MLB 2007 Predictions

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Everyone likes predictions, so we'll take stab, below are the 2007 standings that I prepared, I will add some notes at the bottom: AL East W L BOS 90 72 NY(A) 89 73 TOR 83 79 TB 80 82 BALT 64 98 AL Central CLE 92 70 DET 87 75 MIN 85 77 CHI(A) 77 85 KC 64 98 AL West LA(A) 91 71 OAK 83 79 TEX 82 80 SEA 73 89 NL East NY(N) 94 68 ATL 90 72 PHI 86 76 FLA 73 89 WAS 58 104 NL Central HOU 90 72 StL 86 76 CHI (N) 84 78 MIL 80 82 CIN 73 89 PIT 69 93 NL West SD 89 73 LA(N) 85 77 SF 81 81 ARI 80 82 COL 72 90 Playoffs: Division Series: AL: NYY over CLE (5 games), BOS OVER LAA (4 games) NL: HOU over ATL (5 ...

“Pitchers and Catchers”

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

The best 3 words a diehard baseball fan can hear. Pitchers and catchers have begun to report for spring training around the league in facilities across Arizona and Florida. For the baseball fan, it's the first sign a new season is upon us, and fo a few brief ...

Tigers Defeat A’s in Game 1

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Sabermetrics baseball really hurt the A's last night. Failing to bunt over runners and/or even fake a stolen base partially resulted in a new LCS record for double plays. Can they slug it out against the Detroit pitching staff?