Billy Beane as always been deemed a genius when it comes to baseball. He’s taken the lowest of teams and turned them into World Series contenders. He’s going to have that exact task this year as the Oakland A’s shipped away many veterans this offseason as they went toward the youth direction for 2015.
Did you know that if the season ended Monday that both Wild Card teams would have come out of the AL West? That is because the Oakland A’s are doing it again, stunning the league with surprising performances.
MLB news: Modell’s comes to Christian Lopez’s aid
Choosing to give Derek Jeter his 3,000th-hit ball is certainly starting to pay off for New York Yankees fan Christian Lopez.
MLB news: Brett Anderson shut down for six weeks
Brett Anderson may have avoided Tommy John surgery but the Oakland Athletic ace’s elbow injury will keep him out another eight weeks.
Dr. James Andrews told Anderson to rest the elbow for that long; he’ll also have a platelet-rich plasma injected into his elbow to expedite the healing process.
Johan Santana stops throwing program
It looks like New York Mets Johan Santana is in jeopardy of missing the entire 2011 season. He reportedly shut down his throwing program 10 days ago after experiencing soreness in his left (throwing) shoulder, which he had surgically repaired last September.
Dodgers owe many $8.33 million
The L.A. Dodgers’ messy financial situation just got worse. The team was already in limbo because of Frank and Jamie McCourt’s divorce; now, it appears the Dodgers owe Manny Ramirez $8.33 million by June 30. [soliloquy id=”82219″]
Manny is due deferred compensation of $25 million over the next three years, left over from the $42-million deal he signed before the 2009 season.
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Baseball News – A’s fire Geren
The Oakland Athletics are fed up with their losing streak. It hit 10 games on Thursday but, before the most recent lost, the team fired manager Bob Geren. He went 334-376 over four-plus seasons with the team.
