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Photo By Noah Berger/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images MLB news roundup Happy Sunday Athletics Nation! With most eyes focused on the NFL Conference Championship games this weekend, Saturday was a pretty slow news day for the Oakland Athletics overall. Pitchers and catchers will report soon and things will certainly be picking up. There hasn’t been much news … [Read more...] about Elephant Rumblings: A’s need to commit

Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports MLB news roundup Happy Saturday morning everyone! General Manager David Forst spoke yesterday on some A’s topics, from the recent signing of Aguilar, to the Irvin trade, to the state of some of the starting options and how their recovering from surgery. The A’s finally made the Jesus Aguilar deal official, with Aguilar taking the roster spot … [Read more...] about Elephant Rumblings: Forst speaks on the team

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Unsurprisingly, Tyler Soderstrom claimed the top spot on the list. Unsurprisingly, Tyler Soderstrom ran away with voting to claim the top spot on Athletics Nation’s 2023 Community Prospect List. That isn’t that big of a surprise, but things should get interesting from here on out. Tyler Soderstrom, C/1B Here is … [Read more...] about Oakland A’s 2023 Community Prospect List No. 2

Seemed like a good pitcher and a great guy. | Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Once again the Oakland A’s have made a trade that has caused valuation sites to cry and left A’s fans hoping the front office knows something the pundits don’t. Since Cole Irvin is a known quantity and Darell Hernaiz is a prospect with 13 games above A-level competition, clearly the … [Read more...] about Irvin-Hernaiz Deal: Blogfather Reactions Are Selling Like Hot Takes

Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports MLB news roundup Happy Friday, Athletics Nation! I was somewhat surprised but hardly shocked that the A’s traded Cole Irvin to the Orioles yesterday for Baltimore’s 16th ranked prospect, Darrell Hernaiz. Irvin was the A’s best pitcher in 2022, and he isn’t even arbitration eligible until 2024. Baseball Trade Values certainly doesn’t … [Read more...] about Elephant Rumblings: Reactions to the Cole Irvin trade

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Soderstrom cracks the Top 40. MLB Pipeline released its Top 100 prospects list for the 2023 season Thursday night live on MLB Network. The Oakland Athletics landed a pair of prospects on the list in catcher Tyler Soderstrom and left-hander Ken Waldichuk. Soderstrom moves up eight spots to No. 39 on the preseason list. He tore … [Read more...] about Tyler Soderstrom, Ken Waldichuk on MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 list

Photo by Kiyoshi Mio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Join our team! Athletics Nation has been through some rough times recently, but in the short time that I have been here, I have marveled at the resiliency of this community. I talked a little bit in the comments of this article, about my vision for the site and one of the first orders of business is to staff up the … [Read more...] about Athletics Nation is looking for new writers

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports Let’s get started! Who is the Oakland Athletics top prospect? There is one overwhelming favorite as the answer to that question in our Community Prospect List intro article. While it will probably be a surprise for anyone other than Tyler Soderstrom to win this vote, we have to make it official. Here is the process: Five nominees will … [Read more...] about Oakland A’s 2023 Community Prospect List No. 1: Who is the top prospect in the organization

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports Infield prospect Darell Hernaiz is headed to Oakland. The Oakland Athletics have traded left-hander Cole Irvin and minor league pitcher Kyle Virbitsky to the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for infield prospect Darrell Hernaiz according to a report by ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The deal has not been announced by the team. One more player is … [Read more...] about Athletics trade Cole Irvin to Baltimore