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Source: www.athleticsnation.com --- 9 days ago
It seems to me that as a very general causal A's fan, who had the 20 game packet for years( not anymore) and really does not like the other b- ball team across the bay, we have lost our way. Problems-obtaining guys who are ready to play in the major leagues now, not hyping everyone who is coming to the majors as the second coming of the savor of the franchise; not getting a power hitter- who can drive the ball & not strike out too much. And giving up Harden for some guys that may, may develop we hope , who should be in AA ball. We gave up too much talent ( pass trades) for what, the major league version of the River cats. God help me, can we bring the Hass family back, please. At least they understood the needs of the fans and the team. I know Billy thinks this will work, but so far, not sure for 2009 maybe in 2011. Can we wait that long? It makes the general fans look across the Bay to spend their $$ & that is not a joke. 2008 trades- he did great & I like where the team is going he did ok god help us and he's working for the Giants (ok, bad joke). You pick! ... Source: www.yardbarker.com --- 5 days ago
Dear Beane-face, No more Swish? Like, seriously? Billy, you stupid piece of over-hyped crap, say it ain't so. I mean, I've read Moneyball, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but I thought we liked the guys who could generate runs. I thought we liked walks (of which Nicky-poo had 100 last season - 6th in the AL). I thought we liked high on-base percentages (like Swishy's career-high .381 last year). Err, I thought we wanted to WIN. So why the hell are we dealing away one of our best young players when he's still on his way up? Not to mention the fact that he was one of the few reasons that at least a handful of fans showed up to games in '07 (in a pathetic attempt to fill up the half of the stadium that was actually open). I mean, I thought it was bad before when you gave away Haren, another still-rising young star (15-9 last year, with a 3.07 ERA). But this is just ridiculous. What kind of retarded system are you using to make these decisions? At this rate, you might as well just pack up and move to an old, boring, dirty suburb where no one will come watch you play. Oh, wait. You're already doing that. Billy, in summary, I would just like to say GO TO HELL. I don't care if you're "replenishing the farm system, blahblahblah...", you're ruining MY team by getting rid of some of the most promising players, and I hate you for it. Oh, and did I mention that they were also 2 of the cutest guys on the team? Teehee. Screw you, The Sports Biotch ... Source: www.sfgate.com --- 15 days ago
The Joe Blanton trade was only a few hours old when this space extolled the wisdom of Billy Beane's philosophy. The A's utter collapse seemed to follow on cue, along with a torrent of e-mails suggesting that Beane and your columnist find some other line of... ... Source: www.sfgate.com --- 3 days ago
Who'll be baseball's busiest general manager in the offseason? Perhaps Brian Sabean or Billy Beane, considering the big holes in the middle of the Giants and A's lineups? How about Brian Cashman or Omar Minaya? Lots of tweaking needed in New York as the teams... ... Source: www.sfgate.com --- 3 days ago
Editor - The Giants most closely resemble the Pirates - no, not the team from Pittsburgh, the one in Altoona. The A's are entering Year 15 of their five-year rebuilding plan, and Billy Beane just traded their batboy for a couple of prospects because the kid... ... Source: www.sfgate.com --- 2 days ago
Who'll be baseball's busiest general manager in the offseason? Perhaps Brian Sabean or Billy Beane, considering the big holes in the middle of the Giants and A's lineups? How about Brian Cashman or Omar Minaya? Lots of tweaking needed in New York as the teams... ... Source: www.boxxet.com --- 3 days ago
Written by Joey Matschulat General managers Jon Daniels and Billy Beane have aggressively traded veterans for prospects since realizing they needed to overhaul their clubs to compete with the Angels. Daniels got started first after Texas dropped into last place early in 2007. • • • • • Chris Davis: Original story at mlb-rangers(mvn.com) . View our complete collection of news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Boxxet: Texas Rangers . ... Source: cohn.pressdemocrat.com --- 3 days ago
That's right, I find it disgusting when reporters and TV people call Al Davis "Mr. Davis." A lot of reporters did it at Davis' Kiffin assassination press conference last Tuesday and they should be ashamed of themselves. Why? It's a form of butt kissing and it's unprofessional. And excuse me for asking, but what makes Davis so special? I mean is he more eminent or important than other sports figures? No one ever called Bill Walsh "Mr Walsh" and Walsh was at least as important as Davis, probably more important. No one calls Billy Beane "Mr. Beane." Well, you get the idea. Professionals somehow crumble when Davis is around, feel privileged to be in his presence, revert to being children -- good little children. Give me a break. Calling Davis "Al" should suffice. -- Lowell ...
Source: www.beyondtheboxscore.com --- 3 days ago
From the Seattle Times we get the following names: That list could include Kim Ng of the Dodgers, Rick Hahn of the White Sox, Tony LaCava of the Blue Jays, David Forst of the A's, Peter Woodfork of the Diamondbacks, Dan Jennings of Florida, Al Avila of Detroit, Jed Hoyer of the Red Sox and Tony Bernazard of the Mets. Two other names to tuck away: Jack Zduriencik, who directs amateur scouting for the Brewers, and Jerry DiPoto, director of player personnel for the Diamondbacks. As well as John Hart, Bob Engle, and Randy Smith (!). I mentioned Forst, Zduriencik, Ng, and LaCava in my initial post on the topic days after Bill Bavasi was dismissed. Of the names listed Hahn, Forst, and Hoyer are known as sabermetric types with Hoyer having GM experience (albeit in a cooperative manner) and the former two potentially possessing first dibs on their current teams -- when/if Billy Beane moves up in the organization and Kenny Williams contract expires. Dan Jennings is an interesting pick. His previous experience includes serving as the scouting director of the (then) Devil Rays from 1998 through 2002. During that time Jennings made such non-first-round-picks as Aubrey Huff (5th round, 1998), Carl Crawford (2nd round, 1999), Seth McClung (5th round, 1999), James Shields (16th round, 2000), Nick Blackburn (34th round, 2000), David Bush (4th round, 2001), Jonny Gomes (18th round, 2001), Jason Hammel (19th round, 2001), Joey Gathright (32nd rou ...
Source: catfishstew.baseballtoaster.com --- 9 days ago
Confession time: Your correspondent did not expect the A's to be very good this year. In those heady days of spring training, when all teams start out 0-0 and everyone is mathematically alive, I looked at the 2008 handiwork of Billy Beane and saw 95 losses, a last-place finish, and 1979-sized crowds dotting the Coliseum's many available seats. ... Source: cohn.pressdemocrat.com --- 33 days ago
The PD's Jeff Fletcher is daring the Cohn Zohn to go head to head to him about the A's. He writes the A's have a great farm system. We say, that's true. And we vote for Billy Beane as the minor-league executive of the year. To check out out Jeff Fletcher's blog on the greatness of the A's click here. ... Source: www.lookoutlanding.com --- 17 days ago
After applying a positional adjustment for bRAA, their best hitter is a guy OPS'ing .729 . As a team , their bRAA stands at an amazing -98.8; 2 wins worse than what our sorry lineup has accomplished. And their pitching hasn't helped them that much either, what with it being worth +25 runs, 15 of those attributed to Rich Harden . Who doesn't play for them anymore. When Billy Beane wants to rebuild, my goodness he goes for it. ... Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 3 days ago
-- Editor - The Giants most closely resemble the Pirates - no, not the team from Pittsburgh, the one in Altoona. The A's are entering Year 15 of their five-year rebuilding plan, and Billy Beane just ... ...
Source: blogs.pressdemocrat.com --- 20 days ago
Along with the press release announcing their 2009 schedule, the A's announced that they are not raising any ticket prices for 2009. In a related story, owner Lew Wolff did not set a load of cash on fire. After this season, one in which the fans clearly said with their dollars they weren't interested in watching Billy Beane's rebuilding project, how would it look if the A's raised prices for 2009? I am envisioning torches and pitchforks. Heck, they probably should cut prices, since it's obvious they don't really care about making any money in the short term. Revenue-sharing ... mmmmm. How bout this idea? Everyone who buys a full-season ticket plan for 2009 gets half-price season-tickets for 2010? Or maybe this: Every ticket you buy for 2009 gets you one half-price ticket (or a 2-for-1) for 2010? I ought to go into marketing. ... Source: www.halosheaven.com --- 13 days ago
Bill Dwyer of the LA Times may hate the Angels--or at least according to this morning's LA Times article and the fan post on this site--but Bruce Jenkins of the San Francisco Chronicle is all envy. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/22/SP4A132JL6.DTL Thought you folks would like to see what's being written up here as the playoffs begin next week. The best line I like is where the writer postulates that the Angels could be dominant in the AL West for the next 10 years and how this must keep Billy Beane awake at night. Nice stuff. SactoFan ... Source: www.athleticsnation.com --- 14 days ago
It's been the unlucky 13 for the Oakland Athletics in 2008. The A's have had 13 different pitchers start at least one game for the A's this year. You ready for this list? Joe Blanton, Rich Harden, Justin Duchscherer, Gio Gonzalez, Kirk Saarloos, Lenny DiNardo, Chad Gaudin, Dan Meyer, Josh Outman, Sean Gallagher, Dallas Braden, Dana Eveland and Greg Smith. Some of those guys were traded, some were injured and some didn't perform up to expectations. Yet when I look at that list, I see several pitchers who make me excited about 2009. Gallagher, Duchscherer, Outman, Eveland and Smith could very well be the opening day rotation for our green and gold next year. And that doesn't even take guys like Trevor Cahill and Brett Anderson into account who very well could prove to be ready by the end of spring training next year. Gio Gonzalez could also very well bounce back and have a stellar spring training. And Dallas Braden has probably at least put himself in the conversation with his pitching performances of late too. Now it's probably going to take one or maybe two pitchers to possibly get a bat if that's the route Billy Beane and company want to go. And with the A's history of having injured starting pitchers, the truth is that the team could probably use as many starting pitchers as possible. But it's going to make for a fascinating spring training and the good news is that even if the starting pitchers are all healthy, a few o ... Source: athleticsnation.com --- 22 days ago
SportsBlogs Nation is really fortunate as we have John Sickels writing the best minor league blog on the Web in Minor League Ball . Sickels does excellent work at that blog and I suggest you make it part of your daily reading. I figured it was a great time to check in with him since that's what most of us A's fans have done with 2008, and that's look forward to 2009 and beyond. Oh and make sure you pick up Baseball Prospect Book 2009 when John releases it next year. It will be chock full of A's prospects. Hope you enjoy. Blez: - The A's got Eric Patterson, Sean Gallagher and Josh Donaldson back for Rich Harden and out of all of the Billy Beane deals in recent years, this one seems to get the most heat. You gave Patterson a B, Gallagher a B and Donaldson a B. You're also a notoriously hard grader so a B is a very good prospect. What do you think the A's ultimately will have to show for a pitcher who couldn't stay healthy? John Sickels: Well I like Gallagher a lot, he has been a personal favorite for some time. He is erratic, yes, and he needs to get his walk rate down closer to what it was in the minor leagues, but as long as he remains healthy I still think he's going to be a solid number three starter, an inning-eater type. Patterson isn't really a .195 hitter, I think he's more of a .260-.270 hitter with flashes of power and good speed. He's not terrific but he should be useful. I might have stuck with him a bit too lon ... Find more results for Billy Beane on RSSMicro.com |
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-- NHL.com predicts the Rangers will finish eighth in the East with 88 points, the Islanders 11th with 83. -- Chris Botta on Islespointblank.com writes: "Most of the hockey press has the Islanders finishing between 13th and 15th in the Eastern Conference. This blogger has them more in the 10-12 range. However, for the Islanders to over-achieve beyond most everyone’s expectations, a formula does exist. I’ve thought about this for a long, long time (actually, for about 15 minutes). The equations have been analyzed by sabermetricians (I really just ran it by one guy, who nodded). I asked Bill James to take a look and he passed it on to Theo Epstein. With plenty of time on his hands during the MLB playoffs, “Moneyball” Billy Beane gave me the green light. So here goes: Trent Hunter, Jon Sim and Jeff Tambellini: if they have good years, the first genuine season of an Islanders rebuild could include a playoff appearance." ...
In a recent radio interview , Dayton Moore said that, despite the Royals' strong September, he was disappointed in the season, as he had the team projected to win 78-82 games. Maybe he is just putting on a tough face to show what a "winner" he is and what high expectations he has for the team, I dunno. I can only assume he was serious. I don’t know what other people had the team projected to do, but, with the benefit of hindsight, well... The importance of a general manager getting a correct read on his team’s true talent level was vividly illustrated in Seattle this year, where disastrous moves were made based on the teams miraculous 2007 in which the Mariners overshot their Pythag by a large margin. Predictably, they suffered a massive collapse this year (exacerbated by the palyer they trade most of their best young talent for -- Eric Bedard -- getting hurt early in the season). I don't think that Dayton Moore is the next Bill Bavasi (Xenu have mercy on us all if that is the case). However, given Dayton's projection for this season, this is a fair way to get an evaluation of part of his skills. Dayton Moore then... ...Dayton Moore now. Look at the hair. Does GMing the Royals really age a person that much? I think Dayton Moore has done a good job overall. That said, I don’t think anyone here thinks he’s above criticism. Even the best GMs make mistakes -- think of Billy Beane and Terence Long, or Theo Epstein and Julio Lugo. I as ...
Billy Buckles of Kornheiser's Cartel analyzes what the Yankees should do with all of their money during the offseason. kornheiserscartel posted 10 hours ago from www.kornheiserscartel.com [link] Find more top sports news, videos, and blogs on BallHype: MLB , Johan Santana , Philip Hughes , Billy Beane , Ian Kennedy , Brian Cashman , Joba Chamberlain ...