7:41pm: The Miami Herald has a list of eight players who agreed to terms with the A's for 2009. Daric Barton, Kurt Suzuki, Dallas Braden, Dana Eveland, Gio Gonzalez, Sean Gallagher, Henry Rodriguez and Landon Powell all agreed to one-year contracts. 12:27pm: According to a press release, via the Mia...

Nothing against the fine folks of Fremont, but if you're a Major League Baseball team and they don't want you, it may be time to reconsider hanging around the San Francisco Bay Area. On Tuesday A's owner Lew Wolff officially squelched a proposed 32,000-seat, $500 million ballpark plan in Fremont, wh...

Image via Wikipedia It’s about damn time, too! Being one of my all-time favorite baseball players, it’s awesome to find out that he was voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, joining the likes of others such as Wade Boggs, Cal Ripken Jr., Ty Cobb, Hank Aaron, Cy Young, Babe Ruth ...

I'll keep this updated as more comes in, but for now these are your Saturday links... Patrick Newman found that Akinori Otsuka will work out in front of reps from all MLB teams next month. Apparently Padres GM Kevin Towers is interested if Otsuka's healthy. Roch Kubatko knows there's pitching talent...

We have a new column from Ken Rosenthal this evening. Mark Teixeira is holding up many areas of the free agent market, as guys like Brian Fuentes and Milton Bradley know the Angels will be interested if Tex signs elsewhere. Rosenthal believes the Yankees should continue to be aggressive and make a c...

The Phillies are a feeble 1-for-28 with runners in scoring position, a damning statistic that led manager Charlie Manuel to state his team was 'trying too hard.'...

The Phillies are a feeble 1-for-28 with runners in scoring position, a damning statistic that led manager Charlie Manuel to state his team was 'trying too hard.'...

We’re sure this wasn’t a suicide attempt based on the pending news of the Joe Blanton swap to Philadelphia. (We think . . . ) Oakland Athletics first baseman Daric Barton took a dive into the pool at his buddy’s apartment complex during the All-Star break . . . and, misjudging how ...

According to ESPN's Buster Olney, the Phillies have acquired Joe Blanton for minor leaguers Adrian Cardenas, Josh Outman, and Matthew Spencer. Blanton, 27, has a 4.96 ERA in 127 innings.  Compared to '07, his strikeout rate has fallen while walks have risen.  Still, he can probably eat a l...

In the days preceding the All-Star Break, the Oakland Athletics, despite still being within striking distance of the Angels in the AL West standings, opted to wave the white flag on the 2008 season by trading ace starter Rich Harden and swingman Chad Gaudin to the Chicago Cubs. That blockbuster move...