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The A's announced today they have placed outfielder Coco Crisp on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to April 30 with a strained left hamstring and added left-handed pitcher Brett Anderson to the 15-day DL effective today with a sprained right... Read More »
Following a week full of doubles and driving in runs, Athletics third baseman Josh Donaldson on Monday was rewarded with his first career American League Player of the Week honors.
Donaldson, 27, went 12-for-22 (.545) last week with seven... Read More »
Outfielder Yoenis Cespedes participated in batting practice on Monday for the first time since hitting the disabled list, his injured left hand appearing to be no issue.
That's an extremely encouraging sight for the A's, who expect Cespedes to... Read More »
Yoenis Cespedes did not take any more swings or hit off a tee Sunday, but it is expected he will do so again on Monday and he will also likely take batting practice while the A's are in Boston.
If all goes well, Cespedes could be sent to... Read More »
Yoenis Cespedes was placed on the disabled list this morning with a sprained muscle in his left hand and according to manager Bob Melvin, the hope is that he will be out only the required 15 days.
Cespedes hurt the area between his thumb and... Read More »
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has brushed back San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed's formal request last week for a personal meeting to resolve issues holding up the Oakland A's desired move to his city.
And Selig in his April 4 response... Read More »
This is dreadful news for a player who tore his left anterior cruciate ligament last spring and missed the entire 2012 season: Scott Sizemore tore the same ACL again last night and he will need season-ending knee surgery. Sizemore also needed left... Read More »
Scott Sizemore cannot seem to catch a break.
Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the 28-year-old second baseman has been diagnosed with a re-tear of the ACL in his left knee and needs reconstructive surgery for the second... Read More »
Bartolo Colon makes his first start since a 50-game suspension for testing positive for testosterone on Saturday when the Oakland Athletics play the middle test of a three-game series against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park.
Colon had been... Read More »
Tommy Milone shook off a rocky first inning to work seven strong innings, Jed Lowrie went 3-for-3 - all three hits of the extra-base variety - and Chris Young homered in his first game with Oakland on Wednesday evening.
All good stuff, but the... Read More »
Folks may have wondered what all the preseason power fuss was about until Michael Morse decided to show them with one third-inning swing.
Up to that point, the Mariners' vaunted middle-of-the-order additions of Morse and Kendrys Morales had... Read More »
Bartolo Colon will start on Saturday at Houston, Melvin announced; he had suggested that as a strong possibility last week. That's the day Colon ends his suspension, and he must be reinstated that date, plus this eliminates the need to find Colon... Read More »
None of the shiny new Mariners in the lineup had done anything by the time some bottom-order holdovers decided to take over.
Brendan Ryan wasn't thinking much about his sub-.200 batting average from 2012 when he and Dustin Ackley used their legs... Read More »
Jemile Weeks has gone from one of the favored few to one of the early exits at the A's camp.
Weeks and outfielder Shane Peterson both were set to Triple-A Sacramento after Sunday's game.
Both were hitting well, Peterson at .408 and Weeks at .370,... Read More »
A's pitcher Brett Anderson suffered a strained right trapezius muscle after just eight pitches Sunday when he tried to cover third base on an error and collided awkwardly with Arizona Diamondbacks baserunner Adam Eaton.
The 25-year-old... Read More »
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