Ben Cherington spoke with reporters yesterday about all their new players, including their new relief pitchers Mark Melancon and Andrew Bailey. Rob Bradford provides a pretty good transcript of the press conference. While it hasn’t looked too much like Ben Cherington has been running the show, finally getting him out in front on the first [...]
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Founded in 2008 by Oakland A’s pitcher Craig Breslow, The Strike 3 Foundation is a charitable agency that heightens awareness, mobilizes support, and raises funding for childhood cancer research.
Breslow, a self-proclaimed science nerd, majored in molecular biophysics and biochemsitry at Yale, where he graduated from in 2002. He went on to become the first Yale [...]
OK, so this isn’t earth shattering here, but the A’s last night shut out Texas who’s magic number is 4 to win their division. The A’s Dallas Braden, of “get off my mound” fame, has not allowed a run to Texas in the last 17 innings he has faced them.
The A’s closer, Andrew Bailey, who [...]
OK, I am a girl who is a sucker for good defense. That’s why I think this week’s prize is one of the coolest things I have seen- and I’m not alone. Cal Ripken saw it a couple of years ago at the Baseball Winter Meetings and volunteered to endorse it- that’s how cool it [...]
By the time you are reading this, you have already seen the names of the Rookies of the Year and probably uttered the words “Who?” In hearing the numbers for Chris Coghlan ( which is a little like a NY sport talking head, Craig Coughlan), I agree he has to be the Rookie of the [...]
