#Stephen Piscotty

The Rays are among AL contenders while the A's are expected to be one of the league's bottom-feeders. Oakland has been competitive in the first two games of the series, but we like Wander Franco & Co. to grab a statement win tonight in our betting picks. The Oakland Athletics and Tampa Bay Rays face off in the third game of a four-game set at…

This column will bring you the quick-hitting stats, tidbits and factors you need to know to evaluate today's landscape of MLB games. No narratives, no fluff, no editorializing; just the cold, hard data to help you plan out your bets. Projections and Bets Stats courtesy of THE BAT X and EV Analytics. TODAY'S RANKINGS ROUND-UP Today's Best Starting…

The Chicago White Sox will host the Oakland Athletics in the second game of their series in the American League West versus American League Central from Guaranteed Rate Field on Friday night. The weather is expected to be mildly humid with a 0% chance of rain and 4.5 miles per hour winds. The Chicago White Sox are coming off of a 4 run loss against…

The Toronto Blue Jays and the Oakland A's will wrap up their three-game series at RingCentral Coliseum with some afternoon baseball this Wednesday. The Blue Jays have shockingly dropped the first two games of this series to the worst team in baseball, and have now lost each of their last five contests. Can Toronto recover and avoid the sweep in…

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…

The St. Louis Cardinals (58-51, first in NL Central) play the second of a mini two-game interleague set against the Oakland Athletics (63-48, second in AL West) Sunday at Ring Central Coliseum. First pitch is scheduled for 4:07 p.m. Eastern. Odds courtesy of FanDuel Sportsbook; for a full-set of today's sports betting odds, access them at USA TODAY…

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 A's (55-41) and the Minnesota Twins (58-36) open a four-game set at Target Field Thursday at 8:10 p.m. ET. Oakland took two of three at home from Minnesota in early July. Wednesday: The A's beat the Seattle Mariners 10-2 at home for a sixth consecutive win. The Twins fell 14-4 to the visiting New York Mets, losing a third in a row. Odds…

Toronto and Oakland square off Sunday for the final contest of a three-game set. We like Alek Manoah to dominate on the mound and the Jays' bats to score plenty of runs as they take the series. Find out more in our Athletics vs. Blue Jays betting picks. The Oakland Athletics coughed up a 5-1 lead to the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday, but a Cristian…