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June 13, 2007
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Can Pitching Really Win the AL Pennant? If the old baseball adage holds, these two teams should be locking horns in the ALCS come October, right? Maybe not.   |
Sports Central
June 13, 2005
Bob Ekstrom |
Where Have You Gone, Billy Beane? Now, manager Billy Beane only steps into the limelight in June and July for the amateur draft and trading deadlines. |
Sports Illustrated
October 17, 2001
Tom Verducci |
The sounds of October A's learn the hard way about importance of fundamentals... |
Reason
December 2003
Matt Welch |
Balls The joy of watching ideas win -- a review of Michael Lewis's Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game |
Knowledge@Wharton
August 27, 2003 |
Baseball by the Numbers Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, tells the fascinating story of how Billy Beane has come tantalizingly close, as a general manager, to turning the Oakland Athletics -- one of the poorest teams in baseball -- into an Ugly Duckling success and a perennial contender. |
Sports Illustrated
May 8, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
An F for the A's Touted as a contender, awful Oakland is in danger of falling out of the playoff picture... |
Sports Central
February 27, 2006
Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: American League It was an interesting offseason in the American League. Yet some burning questions still remain. |
Sports Central
April 22, 2004
Mike Round |
Billy Beane: Messiah or Phony? Billy Beane had taken over a team in disarray, with only slightly more fans than the Expos, and transformed them into a perennial contender in the tough AL West. |
Sports Central
October 24, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
World Series So Far a Snoozer MLB's 2006 postseason has been lethargic and limp. |
Sports Central
October 18, 2007
Rich Lyons |
Down 3-1, Sox Look to Their Ace The Red Sox entered the season as one of the favorites to win the World Series, but find themselves in the precarious playoff situation of win or go home. |
Sports Central
December 20, 2004
Dave Golokhov |
Funny-Moneyball Oakland Athletics management has, once again, shipped off two of their prime possessions for aspirations down the road. Well, that is the Moneyball approach, isn't it? Buy low, sell high? But when does tomorrow become today? |
Fast Company
November 2003
Keith H. Hammonds |
Beane's Magic Back in May, in "How to Play Beane Ball," we wrote glowingly of general manager Billy Beane and his Oakland A's baseball team which, we predicted, "almost certainly will win a lot more games than it will lose this season." We're exhaling now: At press time, the A's were 90-60. |
Sports Central
July 6, 2004
William Geoghegan |
Closing Time They are charged with a simple task -- get three outs in the ninth inning. They are the closers, and they get a heck of a lot of attention. |
Sports Illustrated
January 16, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
One-Shot Deal In Johnny Damon, the A's got what they needed -- for a year, at least... |
Sports Central
March 29, 2007
Seth Doria |
2007 MLB Preview: American League Here are a few thoughts about MLB's American League, in order of predicted finish. |
Sports Central
September 27, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
Trouble Brewing in the Bronx There is no secret that pitching is what wins in the postseason. And the New York Yankees have some gaping holes that area. |
Sports Illustrated
September 12, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
Winning ways The A's and Twins have taken different routes to success |
Sports Central
October 4, 2006
Bill Hazell |
Random Thoughts on MLB Playoffs We can still hope to see the first truly memorable game of the '06 playoffs, since none of Tuesday's games reached that level. |
Sports Central
October 4, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Baseball at its Best Down to the Wire The stage is set for a MLB playoffs season that lends itself to great theater, with no sure winner and possibly surprising upsets. You can't ask for any more from this game of baseball. |
Sports Central
June 13, 2006
Tom Skinner |
Detroit Tigers: Contenders or Pretenders? This year's edition of the Detroit Tigers has been anything but a rudderless ship. |
Sports Central
August 23, 2005
Bob Ekstrom |
AL Pennant: Yanks' For the Taking? Well Beantowners, start your guest lists if you must, but don't set that date for this year's Yankee Elimination Party quite yet. It might not come. The Yanks will be hitting the playoffs in peak form. |
Salon.com
October 9, 2001
King Kaufman |
Playoff predictions Our writer bravely looks at the baseball games ahead and calls 'em as he sees 'em (while crossing his fingers)... |
Sports Central
July 28, 2006
Mike Round |
Time For Billy Beane to Move On As a baseball analyst, Joe Morgan stinks. |
Sports Central
August 9, 2004
Hank Waddles |
Dodgers Aiming For Playoff Success Thanks to the new GM's guidance, Dodger fans can look forward to watching their team win games in October for the first time in 16 years. And this time, it won't take a miracle. |
Sports Central
May 7, 2004
Eric Poole |
Beane's Fault Lies Not in Himself, But in His Stars The notion that Beane's teams are equipped to win during the regular season but not in the playoffs has some merit only in the fact that the A's general manager acquires the players he does out of necessity. |
Sports Central
August 2, 2006
Alvin Chang |
Re-Draft, Playball in Five Years (Pt. 2) The Universe Draft is a list of the top 30 young players currently at the big league level. Here is a discussion of picks six to ten. |
Sports Central
September 16, 2005
Chris Cornell |
Sox Take a Look in Rearview If the Boston Red Sox thought they could just cruise into the playoffs without getting a fight from the Evil Empire, they'd better think again. |
Salon.com
October 1, 2002
King Kaufman |
Picking winners In the baseball playoffs, the National League teams all look vulnerable and the American League teams all look unbeatable. Something's gotta give. |
Sports Central
October 16, 2012
Bob Ekstrom |
For Yankees, No Panic In Detroit (Just Yet) After dropping two home games against the Tigers, the New York Yankees have come face-to-face with their postseason mortality as the ALCS now shifts to Detroit. |
Sports Central
August 27, 2009
Matt Thomas |
Also-Rans Key During MLB Stretch Run Because baseball must go on, even in those cities where the race has been over since mid-May, what follows is a breakdown of the five most relevant irrelevant teams in Major League Baseball for the balance of the 2009 season. |
Sports Central
July 23, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
The Hottest Team in Baseball One of the teams that may trade for players to help for the stretch run and stands to benefit from the extra wild card is the Oakland Athletics, who are currently baseball's hottest team, posting a 14-2 record in July to go from having the AL's fourth-worst record to its fourth-best. |
Sports Central
October 30, 2006
Ricky Dimon |
Leyland's Tirade Ignited Tigers' Journey Despite the loss, no one can take away from the Tigers what they accomplished in '06. |
Sports Central
September 17, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB and its Fans Need to Clean Up Their Acts Major League Baseball, as well as its fans, took a collective literal blow on Monday, September 13th at Oakland Coliseum at a game between the Oakland Athletics and the Texas Rangers. |
Sports Central
July 14, 2005
Derek Daggett |
MLB Second-Half Predictions Armed with 80+ games of knowledge, here is how the remainder of the 2005 Major League Baseball season should break down, division by glorious division. |
Sports Illustrated
July 13, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Crunch time Future of A's organization will be determined now... |
Sports Illustrated
October 10, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Tale of two managers While Baker blundered, Torre worked his magic again... |
Salon.com
March 31, 2001
King Kaufman |
Nine predictions and nine observations The Yankees won't do it again, the A's will go far. And stop calling them "ballparks"! |
Sports Illustrated
June 25, 2003
Daniel G. Habib |
The Unbearable Brightness of Beane A best-seller made A's G.M. Billy Beane look like a genius. Will it also make him a pariah? |
Sports Central
June 22, 2007
Matt Thomas |
Five Truths About the '07 MLB Season Things aren't what they seem in baseball -- until at least June 1. |
Sports Central
July 23, 2014
Ross Lancaster |
The Era of Having a Chance It struck me that this is a year where there just aren't that many baseball teams that look very strong. |
Sports Central
August 25, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
AL Wild Card Wild Cards Here's a look at the chase for the AL wild card and examine some possible wild cards each team has. |
Sports Central
July 11, 2006
Bill Hazell |
Making a Pledge to Baseball Now that March Madness, the NHL and NBA finals, the World Cup playoffs and other distractions are off the boards, it's time to catch up on the baseball season. |
Sports Illustrated
October 1, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Truth Be Told Beware conventional wisdom. Here are 10 myths of these October playoffs, and our expert is happy to dispel them |
Sports Central
December 24, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
2012: Mime and Reason A look back at some of the odd occurrences during the 2012 baseball season, and players that passed away this year. |
Sports Central
August 29, 2006
Bill Hazell |
Landslide: Who Wants AL Playoff Spots? Incredibly, most of baseball's American League powers seem quite content in giving each other a good head-start going into the final home stretch in September. |
Sports Central
September 29, 2009
Bill Hazell |
Any Drama Left in September? We can only hope the story of September 2009, the last month of regular season baseball in this decade, has yet to be written. |
Sports Central
October 6, 2008
Kyle Jahner |
Setting the Stage For October Rays and Brewers and Cubs will battle in October. Even the Twins have a shot to crash the party. But the Yankees, Tigers, Mets, and their nine-figure payrolls failed to make the guest list. |
Salon.com
July 31, 2002
King Kaufman |
30 more memorable moments Baseball's list tends toward the recent and positive, so here are some alternatives, unvarnished. |
Sports Illustrated
May 16, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Declining division After years of excellence, NL East is in a malaise... |
Sports Central
February 16, 2006
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Major League Baseball 2006 Preview NL East: 1. New York Mets... 2. Atlanta Braves... NL Central: 1. St. Louis Cardinals... 2. Milwaukee Brewers... |
