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Current Oakland A's come from Boston, Future A's from San Diego
The A’s and Red Sox Love the Same Talent, and that Love is SpreadingThe Oakland Athletics are a well-run ballclub.They’ve been an A.L West force for three consecutive seasons now, which is no small...
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Clayton Kershaw's Postseason Woes Lie at Mattingly and Colletti's Feet
Mounting Pitch Counts and Fatigue: an Old October TuneClayton Kershaw is not the person to blame for Clayton Kershaw's postseason troubles.To preface the rest of this article, let me say that I am not...
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Who Has the Most "In the Park Power" in Baseball?
Measuring Player's "In the Park Power"I began the idea for this post wondering if we can measure how hard balls are hit by guys with “under the radar” type power. That is, the hitters that hit the...
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Royals Need to Look No Further than Across the Dugout for Where to Go Next
The San Francisco Giants May Be the Best Club for the Royals to Emulate to Sustain SuccessThis World Series may seem like a David and Goliath type story, with Kansas City clearly the little boy with a...
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San Diego Could Tinker Their Way to a Passable Defense
How the San Diego Padres Could Make their Outfield Defense PassableThe Padres have a new look outfield, but as many have already written, its defense may make you want to look away, or at the very...
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Determining the Value of Three True Outcome Players
OrHow Much are Home Runs Worth?Russel "the Muscle"...Every once in a while, and perhaps increasingly more so in this decade where runs scored are on the decline, a guy makes a career out of just one...
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Making the Case for J.J. Hardy in his First Free Agency Foray
At first glance, J.J. Hardy should be in line for a pretty large multiyear contract this offseason: a power hitting SS with Gold Glove credentials (and deservedly so) should be most team’s dream with...
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The Chicago White Sox Have Core, Clubhouse Culture to Compete in 2015
By Jacob Kelly,If the White Sox are in a rebuild mode, don’t expect it to last much longer. After nearly losing 100 games last season (63-99), the big league club already sports a better record than...
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Can Alejandro De Aza be this Postseason's Cody Ross?
By Jacob KellyGoing into 2010, few would have pegged Cody Ross as being a candidate for a postseason hero. Of course, few would have pegged the Giants to be serious World Series contenders going into...
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The Boston Athletics: Part One
By Jacob KellyThis year's trade deadline swap of Jon Lester and Yoenis Cespedes got me thinking on all of the great players that have passed through both the Oakland Athletic and Boston Red Sox home...
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The Boston Athletics: Part Two
By Jacob Kelly“The Greatest of All Time”… and Some Other Guys (‘80s-‘90s)Tonight we take a look at three of the guys that helped define the second era of great baseball in Oakland, particularly the...
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The Boston Athletics: Part Three
Moneyballin’ (’01- ’05) Today we take a look at the guys that helped define what I'm referring to as the "Moneyball" era, due either to their direct impact on the phenomenon that Michael Lewis brought...
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The Boston Athletics: Part Four
I See What You’re Doing Over There… and I Like It (’05- Present)The length of this post is due to the fact that A's GM Billy Beane has enjoyed a great deal of success by putting together a roster of...
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Competitive Balance Draft Picks and the Decentivization on Spending for Teams...
Assessing Competitive Balance Draft Pick Value, and How the System Needs to be ImprovedThere is, apparently, an uneven playing field in Major League Baseball that needs balancing, and “new”-ish...
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