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Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images MLB news roundup Happy Monday, Athletics Nation! The A’s have improved their starting rotation depth this offseason with the additions of Luis Severino and Jeffrey Springs to the top of a rotation currently projected to include Severino, Springs, JP Sears, Joey Estes, and Mitch Spence. But the A’s purportedly have a bit more payroll … [Read more...] about Elephant Rumblings: Jordan Montgomery a “good fit” for A’s

Zack Gelof was the A’s starting second baseman throughout the 2024 season and will return for his third year in 2025. | Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images Infielder poised for a breakout season Athletics 2024 Season in Review: Zack Gelof Zack Gelof is the 25-year-old starting second baseman for the Oakland Athletics heading into his third season with the big … [Read more...] about Athletics 2024 Season in Review: Zack Gelof

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Spring training is like nothing else. It is simultaneously magical, meaningless, exciting, quiet, new and familiar — that is if you have gone for 10 or so years in a row as I did prior to the pandemic. Spring Training & Me In 2020 I was supposed to fly to Phoenix on March 13th and luckily made the decision not to board the plane or … [Read more...] about Spring Training Anyone?

Photo by Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images MLB news roundup Happy Friday, Athletics Nation! Despite having spent the last three seasons in rebuild mode, the A’s farm system has been stuck in the bottom half of prominent ranking systems. MLB Pipeline ranked the A’s farm 22nd in their 2024 midseason report, and Fangraphs deemed the A’s system 25th best in … [Read more...] about Elephant Rumblings: A’s farm ranked in top quartile

Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images Starting the season a bit tardy as he recovered from a right knee MCL sprain, Luis Medina’s 2024 season didn’t last very long. After a month-and-a-half in the majors, the talented righty went down again in mid-July, this time from a sprain in his elbow that got him into the highly inclusive Tommy John surgery club. We’ll be lucky to see … [Read more...] about Athletics 2024 Season In Review: Luis Medina