The Oakland Athletics, defending champions of the American League West, open against the Seattle Mariners.
In more than a decade with the Oakland Athletics, he developed a reputation as a progressive thinker.
The saddest duo in history was the 1979 Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants, who together lost 199 games.
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He also had to work hard because Adam Rosales and the Oakland Athletics refused to make it easy for him.
So a team like the Oakland Athletics cannot attract the level of players that a team like the New York Yankees can.
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Moneyball is a baseball movie about Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics.
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Setup man David Robertson is out for New York's weekend series against the Oakland Athletics because of an injury where the left hamstring meets the knee.
Hughes fired eight shutout innings of four-hit ball for his first win of the season, leading the New York Yankees past the Oakland Athletics 4-2 on Saturday.
The 1990 World Series, for example, a four game sweep by the small-market Cincinnati Reds over the Oakland Athletics, had the two highest-rated programs of the week.
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At the other end of the spectrum are teams such as the Oakland Athletics and Baltimore Orioles, who both made the playoffs last year with high-power, high-strikeout attacks.
Hughes fired eight shutout innings of four-hit ball for his first win of the season, leading the New York Yankees past Colon and the Oakland Athletics 4-2 on Saturday.
By 1990, Larkin was featured on the national stage as the Cincinnati Reds swept the Oakland Athletics in the World Series and won their first world championship since 1976.
In the movie, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt), struggles to put together a competitive team as the franchise faces financial challenges.
Griffin pitched six-hit ball into the eighth inning Friday night and Adam Rosales homered on CC Sabathia's first pitch, leading the Oakland Athletics to a 2-0 victory over the New York Yankees.
Not of Moss' two-run homer in the 19th inning that gave the Oakland Athletics a 10-8 victory over the Los Angeles Angels in a game that took 6 hours, 32 minutes and concluded at 1:41 a.m.
Matsui played seven seasons for the Yankees, and was the MVP of the 2009 World Series, before finishing his career with a season each for the Los Angeles Angels, the Oakland Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays.
This morning was a prime example as Bloomberg reported that Andy Dolich, a former executive vice president of the Oakland Athletics, and former Dodgers General Manager Fred Claire confirmed their interest in buying the team yesterday.
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May 4, 1995 California pitcher Shawn Boskie strains his back during a brawl against the Oakland Athletics that begins when Athletics pitcher Jim Corsi hit the Angels' Tim Salmon with a pitch, one at-bat after Salmon homered.
The book is about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and the highly unusual and controversial methods they took to compete as a small market team with little money against larger market, bigger budget teams such as the Yankees.
Rounding out the rest of the list are Comerica Park (Detroit Tigers), Turner Field (Atlanta Braves), Coors Field (Colorado Rockies) Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (Oakland Athletics), PETCO Park (San Diego Padres), Angel Stadium (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), Minute Maid Park (Houston Astros) and Miller Park (Milwaukee Brewers).
On the flipside, the Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres and Tampa Bay Rays have less than 50% of 2009 revenue locked up in player contracts through 2011 and therefore have lots of room to sign some expensive talent.
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Such generosity by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner , required by the league's rule that teams pay 34% of their net local revenue to help make poorer teams more competitive, is the reason why the Oakland Athletics, Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals increased in value by more than 20%.
To combat the wealthy behemoths in the American League East, Billy Beane defied decades of player development strategies and the wisdom of seasoned scouts by allowing an assistant general manager with a Harvard degree in economics to enter into the inner sanctum of the draft room of the Oakland Athletics with a laptop.
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