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Welcome to the 2024 MLB season, Athletics Nation!
Whether you’re boycotting from the parking lot, cheering from the bleachers, watching from your couch, or listening in your car, today’s a day for celebration. Celebration of Oakland, our electric young core, the best team colors in sports, the Coliseum workers, and everything in between.
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The A’s announced a flurry of roster moves Thursday and set their 26-man roster for Opening Day.
The Oakland Athletics announced a flurry of roster moves Thursday in the process of setting their 26-man roster for Opening Day. The A’s will kick off the 2024 regular season Thursday against the Cleveland Guardians at the Oakland Coliseum. Here is a breakdown of the roster moves:
Selected the contract of catcher Kyle...The Athletics announced a series of Opening Day roster moves today. They selected the contract of catcher Kyle McCann and placed left-hander Sean Newcomb and infielder Aledmys Daz on the 60-day injured list.
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Happy Opening Day A’s fans!
Today is the day that games finally start to matter. The Athletics went a respectable 14-14 during spring training but now it’s time to step on the proverbial gas.
A veteran of 11 seasons, off-season acquisition Alex Wood has been tabbed to get the season rolling for the club at the Coliseum. It’ll be a new experience for the left-hander as it’ll be his first Opening Day assignment. He sounds ready for...
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The 2024 regular season is here!
While a potential relocation to Las Vegas dominated the offseason storylines, the Oakland Athletics will take the field Thursday at the Coliseum for what could be their final season in Oakland. The A’s have suffered through back-to-back 100-loss seasons and while expectations are low in 2024, they do boast a young roster that could be fun with more prospects on the way.
The Cleveland Guardians...
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Happy Wednesday, Athletics Nation!
The A’s played their last preseason game against the Giants yesterday, and the Opening Day roster picture has begun crystallizing into something that should closely resemble this tweet:
Likely A's opening day roster:
C-Langeliers/Perez
IF-Noda/Gelof/Allen/Davis/Toro/Hernaiz
OF-Rooker/Brown/Bleday/Ruiz/Butler
SP-Wood/Stripling/Blackburn/Sears/Boyle
RHP Joe Boyle is set to open the season in the Oakland rotation. The 24-year-old was a fifth-round pick by the Reds in the 2020 draft and made his big-league debut with the A’s back in September.
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Pitching leads the way for the A’s who will now look ahead to the 2024 regular season
The A’s wrapped up their 2024 Spring Training campaign with a 3-1 win over the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday at Oracle Park to split the annual preseason Bay Bridge Series, 1-1. The A’s finish Spring Training going 14-14-2 but more importantly, regular season baseball is now on deck.
For the Giants, Tuesday turned into a bullpen game in just the top of the second...
The Oakland Athletics are not done adding quality arms to the roster. After bringing in two veterans from the San Francisco Giants this winter, the Athletics will acquire T.J.
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The obvious choice for the final rotation job
On the eve of the final game of the spring, A’s manager Mark Kotsay told reporters that right-handed rookie Joe Boyle had claimed the fifth and final rotation spot:
Mark Kotsay has told Joe Boyle he’ll be A’s fifth starter behind Wood, Stripling, Sears and Blackburn. Boyle will throw in Arizona against Double-A hitters tomorrow as his final tuneup for the season.
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The lefty pitched to a combined 2.30 ERA at Triple A with the Orioles and Mets last year.
Welcome back, T.J.!
The Oakland Athletics announced today that they acquired T.J. McFarland from the Los Angeles Dodgers for cash considerations. The team added him to the 40-man roster, which almost guarantees he’ll be in the major league bullpen on Opening Day.
The Oakland A’s acquired minor league left-handed pitcher T.J. McFarland...
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Daniel Susac led the way last week with his two home run performance
Spring is coming to a close for the A’s, and with that prospect playing time is dwindling a bit. However we have managed to see a few standout performances, notably from Daniel Susac, and the somewhat expected announcement that Darell Hernaiz will be breaking camp with the big league club.
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Spring Totals: 8 G, 9 PA, .222/.222/.222
Bolte briefly...
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Welcome to Tuesday everyone!
Oakland finally broke camp and headed back to the Bay Area for their traditional preseason series with the cross bay rival Giants. Because of the potential move to Vegas there is a chance that this might be the final one where both teams are in the Bay Area.
And unfortunately for the team leaving, they came up on the losing end last night in an all-around rough game. Three home runs were all the Giants needed to take...
He was selected to the club’s 40-man roster back in November ahead of last year’s Rule 5 Draft, and his first appearance with the club this year will be his major league debut.
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Three home runs did us in tonight
In possibly the final spring training game at the Coliseum, the Athletics fell to the rival Giants by a final of 4-1 on a windy and cold night in the East Bay.
Sears solid
Lefty JP Sears got the ball today for his final spring start. At this point you stop experimenting with your pitches and really try to earn results. Sears has had a great spring training, entering today with a sparking 2.08 ERA with 15 K’s in 13 innings....
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Mark Kotsay told reporters today that Darell Hernaiz earned a spot on the Oakland A’s Opening Day roster.
Darell Hernaiz will be part of the Opening Day roster, per Kotsay.
— Jason Burke (@ByJasonB) March 25, 2024The Puerto Rican shortstop is only 22 years old and will make his major league debut, presumably, sometime in the A’s first series against the Cleveland Guardians. It’s unclear if he’ll be in the starting lineup on...
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Back in the bay for one last hurrah before games start counting
The A’s are finally back in the Bay Area. The team is set for the first of two games against the cross bay rival Giants, hosting them tonight in the second to last game of Spring Training.
Lefty JP Sears is on the mound for the Green & Gold in his final tune up start of the spring. Sears has had a great spring training and looks poised to build on his very solid rookie campaign. Entering his...
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Happy Monday, Athletics Nation!
The A’s continue to be ravaged by injuries, and the fates have been especially cruel on this front in the final week before opening day. On Friday, we learned that newly signed reliever Trevor Gott will undergo Tommy John surgery, so he will not throw his first pitch for the A’s in 2024.
The bad news didn’t stop there, as the A’s announced on Saturday that Miguel Andujar and Sean...
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Replacement for Gott in the bullpen
The Athletics added some reinforcements for a banged up bullpen on Sunday morning, acquiring right-handed reliever Austin Adams from the Mets in exchange for cash considerations:
The A’s have acquired RHP Austin Adams from the New York Mets in exchange for cash considerations. Adams has been selected to the 40-man roster and RHP Trevor Gott has been placed on the 60-day IL.
— Oakland...The pitcher has been selected to Oakland’s 40-man roster.