#Sean Murphy

Texas Rangers vs Oakland Athletics 7/22/2022 Picks Predictions Previews The Texas Rangers and the Oakland Athletics will meet at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California on Friday, July 22, 2022, at 9:40 PM ET. The Rangers are in third place in the AL West standing with a record of 42-49. The team won over Seattle last Thursday to a score of…

For all the talk about how division races supposedly don't matter as much as they used to -- and I can think of a couple No. 1 and No. 2 seeds who would very much disagree with you -- it still means something to be able to call yourself a champion. I guarantee you there are Guardians fans who have 2022 AL Central champs shirts. It might not be the…

The Oakland Athletics are set to host the Detroit Tigers on Thursday. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes our Tigers-Athletics prediction and pick we have laid out below. Both teams have had their share of struggles this season as they gear up for their first game after the All-Star break. Detroit is…

Believe it or not, Red Sox spring training opens in just about five weeks. The roster is not complete quite yet, but the large majority of the 2023 team has already been put together, and it looks quite different than the group that last took the field at Fenway Park in early October. Boston's chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom entered the winter…

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Guardians still need a catcher. Manager Terry Francona said patience is required and that executives Chris Antonetti and Mike Chernoff will deliver a backstop. That is a good thing because as Casey Stengel said a long time ago, "If you don't have a catcher, you're going to have a lot of passed balls." The winter meetings…

The MLB offseason is winding down as we are getting closer and closer to pitchers and catchers reporting to start another full baseball season. We have seen some big moves made across the board this offseason, as playoff teams tooled up their rosters to make another series push at a title in 2023. Here are the early World Series odds with a little…

Who's ready for some west coast action? The Oakland Athletics will travel to Anaheim to battle it out with the Los Angeles Angels. It is time to take a sneak peek at our MLB odds series, where our Athletics-Angels prediction and pick will be revealed. Standing with a record of 56-97 entering the final week of the regular season, the A's are eager…

Few teams struggled like the Oakland Athletics last season. The perrennially cash-starved ballclub finished last place in the American League with a 60-102 record. Much of the Athletics' issues stem from their money problems. The team has always been among the lowest payrolls in the MLB. Additionally, their home field, the O.co Coliseum, has been…

The Oakland Athletics and Sean Murphy hit the field against Chas McCormick and the Houston Astros on Monday at Oakland Coliseum. The Astros rank third in baseball with 136 home runs. They average 1.4 per game. The Athletics' 78 home runs rank 26th in MLB this season. Prepare for the Astros vs. Athletics with what you need to know ahead of Monday's…

The Chicago White Sox will try to stay hot when they visit the Oakland Athletics at 4:07pm ET Sunday in the third game of a four-game series at RingCentral Coliseum. The White Sox (71-68, 37-32) beat the Athletics for the second straight night Friday, 5-3, and have won eight of their last 10 games. The Athletics (50-89, 22-47 home) are on a…

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…

With MLB free agency winding down, the league is beginning to take shape. Some teams have drastically improved their chances of competing in 2023 based on swift offseason moves. The New York Mets just pulled off a stunner to land Carlos Correa after the shortstop had previously agreed to a deal with the San Francisco Giants. Other teams such as the…

This past offseason was long and arduous, and at times, it felt like the odds of getting Opening Day in April - if at all in 2022 - were approaching slim-to-none. The season got delayed by a week and rain has pushed the Yankees' scheduled opener back to Friday, but nonetheless, we are indeed going to get a 162-game season! Somehow, it's still MLB's…

We're keeping track of all the latest free agent and trade rumors. The Braves (Dansby Swanson), Dodgers (Trea Turner), Red Sox (Xander Bogaerts) and Twins (Carlos Correa) have all lost star shortstops in free agency this offseason. Where might they turn for an external replacement? According to The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal (subscription required),…

The NL West arms race reached another level on Tuesday night when the San Francisco Giants signed shortstop Carlos Correa to a 13-year, $350 million contract. The Giants had been a bridesmaid for a few other free agents, but they've had a big couple of days, signing pitchers Ross Stripling and Sean Manaea to two-year, $25 million deals. They also…

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…

Remember when the Oakland A's were trying to hold up the Cardinals in their trade demands for catcher Sean Murphy? Remember how they wanted Laars Nootbaar and Brendan Donovan and one of the Cardinals' top young pitchers? After the Cardinals took a pass and signed free-agent Willson Contreras instead, the A's worked a three-way trade with Atlanta…

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…

Thirty-three mostly uneventful days have passed on the Major League Baseball calendar since Ryan Pressly induced a Nick Castellanos popup to end the 2022 World Series. But as the baseball world descended on San Diego for the winter meetings this week, the transactions arrived in a flurry. So let's take stock of the first month of the offseason with…

In the inaugural MLB Draft Lottery, Kansas City had the fifth best odds to select #1 overall at 10%. They ended up dropping out of the six pick lottery and fell to pick number eight, having been jumped by the Tigers, Rangers, and Twins. It would be easy to bemoan this as bad luck for our Royals, but is that actually true? When MLB's new CBA went…

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - As the Cardinals navigate the Winter Meetings this week in San Diego, the team has been consistently linked to one specific area of need more than any other. St. Louis is in the market for a catcher. With Yadier Molina retiring and the 2022 efforts by Andrew Knizner and prospect Ivan Herrera providing little confidence in…

SAN DIEGO - Well, so much for all of those dots that got connected when social media started buzzing due to a video that showed Cody Bellinger working on his swing at Oklahoma State, the offseason home base of Matt Holliday. Could the Cardinals Hall of Famer turned Cardinals bench coach have been working with a former National League MVP turned…

The Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics will wrap up their weekend series Sunday afternoon. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes our Rangers-Athletics prediction and pick we have laid out below. Texas has waited and waited for contention, and appear to be waiting at least one more year. With a 42-51…

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…

The Oakland Athletics are soon expected to trade catcher Sean Murphy, and the Boston Red Sox are reportedly among the clubs in on the 28-year-old standout. According to MLB.com's Mark Feinsand, the Red Sox, Cardinals, Rays and Guardians are among the teams that have been connected to Murphy in recent weeks. Feinsand had previously reported the…

When it comes to giving the people what they crave, few in the sports industry deliver to the level of ESPN's Jeff Passan. From early beat-reporting days at Fresno State to writing for The Kansas City Star and Yahoo to now covering all things Major League Baseball, Passan has worked his way into national status and become one of the most valuable…

While some of the NFL's most intimidating teams reside in the NFC, you won't find any of them in the NFC South. Tampa Bay entered Week 13 atop the division. But that comes with a caveat, as they own a less-than-impressive 5-6 record. After back-to-back gutsy wins, Tom Brady's squad was handed a disappointing overtime loss in Cleveland. The Saints,…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Here are the starting lineups for Thursday's series opener between the Guardians and Athletics. Where: Progressive Field, 7:10 p.m. TV/radio: Bally Sports Great Lakes, WTAM 1100 AM, WMMS 100.7 FM and the Guardians Radio Network will carry the game. Teams: Guardians (26-26) vs. Athletics (20-38). Starting pitchers: LHP Konnor…

If you're starting to get bored with the offseason, fear not. The Winter Meetings are almost here. The annual poorly entitled (it's still fall, folks) GM swap meet will start this coming Sunday in sunny San Diego (the least wintery place in America). Baseball is flush with cash. And confidence since the new CBA was ratified last spring. There's…

It is decreed in the ancient scrolls. Despite employing two of the greatest ballplayers in history, the Angels cannot finish higher than.500. It's an immutable law of baseball physics that cannot be bent or broken, but that won't stop the club from trying. Early in the offseason, they've been the most active MLB team, signing Tyler Anderson and…

On March 31, 2019, Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Elvis Luciano became the first player born in the 2000s to reach the big leagues. In the years since, a wave of talented young players who weren't even born when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire were chasing down Roger Maris during the 1998 season has descended on Major League Baseball. 2022 Rookie of…

The list of teams that have expressed interest in Sean Murphy is seemingly growing by the day, with the Tampa Bay Rays reportedly being the latest team looking to upgrade behind the dish. There has been a lot of talk about just how valuable Sean Murphy is as a trade chip, but with three years of control left and a projected salary of $3.5MM for…

A pair of AL West rivals will go head-to-head out on the diamond as the Oakland Athletics make the trip to the Lone Star State to do battle with the Houston Astros. Join us for our MLB odds series, where our Athletics-Astros prediction and pick will be revealed. Even though the A's sit in the basement of the division with a 52-93 record and are…

The Chicago White Sox will take their talents to the West Coast to take on the Oakland Athletics this weekend. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a White Sox-Athletics prediction and pick, laid out below. Chicago has gone 69-68 on the season, third place in the AL Central, sitting two games behind…

Don't overlook the 2022 Oakland A's. The rebuilding A's completed a series victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday, beating them 6-3 for their third win in four days at Tropicana Field. How well Oakland fares over the marathon of the next six months remains to be seen, but they're making some noise in the early going. One week into the season…

There is more to the San Francisco Giants' offseason than the Great Aaron Judge Pursuit. Judge, the All-Star outfielder from Linden (San Joaquin County), is certainly San Francisco's top target, and there appears to have been a sea change in thinking about where he'll land. After an MVP-worthy season with the Yankees, the consensus was that he'd…

Today the focus is on Christian Vazquez, the 32-year-old veteran free agent who is gaining in popularity with St. Louis media and fans. THE OVERVIEW: Vazquez spent seven-plus seasons with Boston before being traded to Houston last summer, and he teamed with Martin Maldonado to form a catching tandem that was part of the Astros' run to the World…

The annual MLB general manager meetings were held last week in Las Vegas, and the event is traditionally the rumor-filled calm before the storm. (It's also not to be confused with the winter meetings, which will take place in San Diego from Dec. 4-7 and is when a ton of wheeling and dealing goes down.) Free agents couldn't sign with new teams until…

The Oakland Athletics will begin a three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays in Canada on Friday night. It's time to continue our MLB odds series with an Athletics-Blue Jays prediction and pick. The Athletics defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 6-3 on Thursday afternoon in Central Florida. Christian Pache started things off in the second inning with…

The Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics will finish their AL West series on Sunday afternoon in Oakland. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Mariners-Athletics prediction and pick we have laid out below. Seattle made some impressive maneuvers at the trade deadline, adding to an already playoff…

The Cardinals are in the market for a catcher. Hopefully they'll be smart about this and view the opening as an opportunity to upgrade their offense. Defense must be a consideration, which doesn't really need to be stated. But in this case the defensive requirement has been overstated, with too much attention being paid to the standard established…

The San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics will finish their brief two-game series on Sunday in Oakland. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes our Giants-Athletics prediction and pick we have laid out below. It has been a tale of two seasons for San Francisco. Last season, the team was an astonishing…

The Cleveland Guardians host the Oakland Athletics for the first of a four-game series! It's time to continue our MLB odds series with an Athletics-Guardians prediction and pick. The Oakland Athletics own the second-worst record in baseball at (20-38) and have played six more games than the Cleveland Guardians have. Cleveland is (26-26) on the…

The Rays will begin a 10-game road trip as they travel 2894 miles to Oakland to take on the Athletics. Join us for our MLB odds series, where our Rays-Athletics prediction and pick will be made. Tampa Bay enters play slightly stumbling of late, with three runs or fewer in six of the past nine games. While this is a bit of a concern, RHP Drew…

In a west coast showdown, the Texas Rangers travel to Oaktown to take on The Oakland Athletics at the Coliseum. It is about that time to take look at our MLB odds series, where our Rangers-Athletics prediction and pick will be revealed. The Rangers enter play coming off a relieving 7-2 win against the Angels in Anaheim that saw Texas snap a…

The Baltimore Orioles look to even the four-game series as they face the Oakland Athletics in the finale at the Coliseum. It's time to continue our MLB odds series with an Orioles-Athletics prediction and pick. The Orioles shut out the Athletics 1-0 on Wednesday afternoon at the Oakland Coliseum. Oakland attempted to strike first, as they had Billy…

LAS VEGAS - Perhaps the biggest question facing the Blue Jays this off-season is whether they'll trade from their enviable catching depth to address other needs. Thanks to Danny Jansen, Alejandro Kirk and Gabriel Moreno, Blue Jays catchers generated an MLB-best 7.3 WAR in 2022. They combined to lead MLB in batting average (.273) and on-base…

The Houston Astros and the Oakland Athletics are set to have a three-game series at H-town, starting this Monday. Check out our preview below of this Astros vs. Athletics 2022 MLB regular season game. Where: RingCentral Coliseum, Oakland, California When: Monday, July 25, 2022, 9:40 PM ET Line: Houston Astros ( -1.5) vs. Oakland Athletics ( +1.5)…

The LA Rams (3-4) are below.500 for the third time in head coach Sean McVay's NFL career as head coach of the LA Rams. Unfortunately, all three occasions have occured this season, and two have come as a result of the aftermath of losing to the San Francisco 49ers. I don't think it's an overstatement to claim that the Rams are desperate for a…

The Seattle Mariners will take on the Oakland Athletics at the T-Mobile Park on Friday (September 30) in MLB action. The Mariners are on their merry way towards the playoffs, while the As have been the worst team in the American League. The Mariners have been sensational this season and are in prime position to finish second in the AL West and…