Oakland Athletics

Wow .. Who saw this one coming?

Do the Oakland A's really think that they are going to compete with the Angels in 2009? They shipped off their entire pitching staff, and a year later, the team owner increases payroll, and says "I want to compete" .. what a fool.

SI.com Oakland A's acquired Holliday from the Colorado Rockies

The A's have acquired star outfielder Matt Holiday from the Colorado Rockies, SI.com has learned. It isn't known yet which players will be sent to Oakland in the surprise deal. Holliday will have a physical on Tuesday. Rockies general manager Dan O'Dowd called Holliday on Monday to give him the news.

The LoHud Yankees Blog Cashman Wants a Real First Baseman

“I don’t buy into the idea of using a Johnny Damon or a Hideki Matsui or converting somebody else,” he said. “I’d like us to get a player who knows how to play that position.”

Great signing for Oakland. Mark Ellis needs a new agent.

Why do all these baseball doctors live in the south?

A couple of weeks back, Josh Beckett went to visit Dr Andrews in Alabama. There is no baseball in Alabama, or Tennessee for that matter. Some minor league teams, i guess, but obviously nothing professional. How odd. And it is not like they are centrally located or anything. Maybe Tennessee, but Alabama?

I didn't kick out a chatter yesterday. It was all drawn up, and I have a number of solid pieces in there, but it is all old news by now. Not only that, there is no chatter. No opinion, nothing. Just a bunch of links to day old news. So I didn't publish it.

So when I sat down this evening to pen out Wednesday's chatter, I figured why write two pieces, when I can just write one. Tomorrows.

I can just use yesterdays links out as a fake chatter. Just links mostly. Besides. I seriously doubt any of the guys i am linking to would be upset about being linked to. Know what I mean.

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I am not a Bud Black fan. He bores me. I miss Bruce Bochy. We should get that straight right now. Bochy, an ex catcher, had a presence about him. It's like that old commercial, when Bruce spoke, people really did listen.

I believe rightly or wrongly, that the solid Padre bullpens of the past few seasons was Bochy's doing, and not Kevin Towers doing, even though Towers gets all the credit.

The Oakland A's just keep feeding the machine. A machine taught to them by none other than Sandy Alderson, and hopefully a machine that Alderson is currently installing in friar land. Fangraphs has a profile on another A's pitching prospect that you may or may not of heard of. Trevor Cahill

Brandon Phillips is soo underrated.
Phillips is on pace for another 30/30 season, and you almost never hear a peep about the guy.
Here, I got some love for you Brandon.
Ill give you some face time.

Fantasy Baseball Strategy has an excellent breakdown of Dana Eveland's last start, using the pitch FX data.