Topic: Oakland Athletics
(Reuters) - The Chicago Cubs signed free agent outfielder David DeJesus to a two-year contract, the National League club said Wednesday in the first significant move by their new chief baseball executive Theo Epstein.The 31-year-old DeJesus, who has spent his first eight ...
(Reuters) - Milwaukee Brewers hitting coach Dale Sveum has been named as the new Chicago Cubs' manager, the Cubs said on Friday.Sveum, 47, served briefly as the Brewers' interim manager, posting a 7-5 record, but this will be his first permanent job ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers won the American League Cy Young Award as the top pitcher on Tuesday, capping a brilliant season in which he led the league in wins, earned run average and strikeouts.Verlander, who went ...
Ichiro Suzuki will lead the Seattle Mariners against the Oakland A's next March in Tokyo in the opening games of the 2012 North American Major League Baseball season, officials said Wednesday.On the final day of this year's six-month regular season, Major League ...
(Reuters) - Major League Baseball (MLB) will open its season in Tokyo, Japan, for the first time in four years when the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics hold a two-game set to start the 2012 campaign, the league said on Wednesday.The series, ...
Josh Hamilton and Adrian Beltre blasted homers and Craig Gentry had an inside-the-park home run as Texas defeated Seattle 5-3 to clinch the American League West Division title.The Rangers (91-66) needed a win and a loss by the Los Angeles Angels to ...
Major League Baseball has asked the Seattle Mariners to consider opening the 2012 season in Japan with a two-game series against the Oakland A's, a club spokesman said.Randay Adamack, the Mariners' vice president of communications, said in a posting on Major League ...
OAKLAND (Reuters) - The Oakland Athletics snapped Detroit's 12-game winning streak with a 6-1 win on Thursday, halting the Tigers' march toward their first division title since 1987.The Tigers had a chance to sew up the American League Central title after the ...
TORONTO (Reuters) - Brad Pitt has turned to the insular world of baseball economics for his latest movie and yet the Hollywood heavyweight is a relative rookie in terms of obsessing over one of America's great pastimes.The A-list actor is one of ...
ARLINGTON, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas Rangers scored nine late runs to demolish the Oakland Athletics 13-4 at Rangers Park in Arlington on Friday.Josh Willingham staked the A's to a brief 2-0 lead with a two-run home run in the first inning ...
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