#Billy Beane

When drafting Tampa Bay Rays players for a fantasy team I usually go by this principle: do I have to? Like in years past, the Rays have a core group of players that need to be drafted and started in all formats. Wander Franco (80 ADP), Tyler Glasnow (86), Shane McClanahan (33), Randy Arozarena (38), Jeffrey Springs (186), and Drew Rasmussen (187)…

For the second straight offseason, A's general manager David Forst is having serious discussions with multiple teams about trading his best young player - catcher Sean Murphy this time. That doesn't necessarily mean it will be business as usual for the frugal A's at the Winter Meetings, though. Forst heads to San Diego Sunday with the hope of…

SAN DIEGO - It was Saturday morning in Seattle, in the visitors' dugout of an empty ballpark that was ready to rock. James Click, the general manager of the Houston Astros, stood in the sunshine and considered a simple question: Who was lined up to start Game 4 on Sunday? The expectation, Click said, was that there would be no fourth game. The plan…

After six months of fighting their way into the postseason, the Tampa Bay Rays and Oakland Athletics will square off in the American League Wild Card Game to keep their hopes of winning a championship alive. The Rays earned their first postseason berth since 2013 thanks to a 96-66record. Thewin total is tied for the second-most in franchise history…

The one good thing that can be said of the A's as they go into yet another rebuild is that top baseball men Billy Beane and David Forst have walked this path before. They know the pitfalls, and they know that teams don't take a straight line back to the top. Rather, they get better or worse by fits and starts. The A's enter 2022 without popular and…

At the beginning of the season, talk around baseball concerning the best starting rotations in the big leagues likely won't focus on the A's. But the talk should trend westward because the A's have the arms, all healthy for once, to orchestrate Oakland's third consecutive postseason appearance. The A's, winners of 97 games each of the last two…

After a season that could have been special, the Oakland A's will be hard-pressed to post the second-best record in the American League once again in 2021. The A's are still in position to contend, even with two of their main guys, shortstop Marcus Semien and closer Liam Hendriks, elsewhere after a disappointing team stumble in the ALDS against the…

With Noah Syndergaard back on the mound for the Angels, our MLB player prop picks are targeting a hefty+1000 price in the stolen bases market. Find out who in our best player prop plays for July 12. It's a great day for action on the diamond with 16 games on tap for baseball bettors to dive into. That also means a cornucopia of options in the MLB…

When sportsbooks opened 2022 MLB win totals several weeks ago, the Oakland A's were set at Over/Under 79.5 at Caesars Sportsbook off an 86-76 record last year, missing the playoffs for the first time since 2017. That win total has dropped all the way to 68.5 at Caesars after the tanking team sold off another top piece over the weekend in starting…

The Oakland A's finished under.500 every year from 1993 to 1998. Leading into the final year of that stretch, Billy Beane was promoted to become the team's general manager and they had a winning season in 1999. They didn't have another losing season until 2007 and from that year through 2011, their best season was an 81-81 finish. Then they had…