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The Oakland Athletics' potential relocation plans in Major League Baseball will require collaboration with the league and approval from the players' union, as reported by Bill Shaikin of Los Angeles Times on Saturday, July 8.
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Tony Kemp, a veteran player who has had a disappointing start to the season, acknowledged the struggles on Instagram but expressed his excitement for the second half.
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Entering Tuesday, the A's have picked 11 players coming from different universities, three prospects coming out of high school, and from a positional angle they've selected five position players (three outfielders, two infielders) to go with six pitchers.
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Esteury Ruiz, Ken Waldichuk, Shintaro Fujinami, and Tyler Soderstrom are future All-Stars with the potential to become stars in the MLB for years to come.
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With the no. 6 selection, and following a chalky start to the event in which all five players expected to get off the board did so, the A's selected Jacob Wilson, a shortstop from Grand Canyon University.
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In very Oakland Athletics (25-67) fashion, the A's dropped their last game before the break losing 4-3 to the Boston Red Sox (48-43) allowing them to come from behind and sweep the visitors in the final series of the first half of the season.
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The MLB will form a committee of three members to evaluate the relocation of the A's from Oakland to Las Vegas. Those three persons will be staffers of the Philadelphia Phillies, Kansas City Royals, and Milwaukee Brewers franchises, AP revealed on Friday.
Antonio Losada|
The Oakland Athletics (25-66) couldn't use chalked-in starter Paul Blackburn (illness) in their 10-3 defeat to the Boston Red Sox (47-43) on Saturday and they face a very dangerous situation in which they can get swept right before the All-Star break.
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The Oakland Athletics sent two players to the game, first-baseman Tyler Soderstrom (Triple-A) and outfielder Lawrence Butler (Double-A). The latter did nothing, the former got himself a single and a walk against the top NL prospects out there. Yay!
Antonio Losada|
The Oakland Athletics announced on Friday that rookie outfielder and MLB base-stealing leader (43) Esteury Ruiz has been placed on the 10-day Injured List. The move, the franchise clarified, is retroactive to July 6.
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The Oakland Athletics weren't lucky in the draft lottery, ending up in the sixth-overall spot, but they will have two other picks on top of that one inside the top-41 slots this weekend: the 6th, the 37th, and the 41st picks are in possession of the A's.
Antonio Losada|
The A's lost 7-3 to Boston in their first matchup before the All-Star break after having defeated the Blue Jays, the Yankees, the White Sox, and the Tigers in the first game of the last four series they'd played before this one.
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The Oakland Athletics faced a very strong possibility of sweeping a series on the road last Thursday but all they could do was lose a no-run-scored game 9-0 to the Detroit Tigers inside Comerica Park. Hopefully, changes for the good will be coming soon.
Antonio Losada|
The Oakland Athletics weren't lucky in the draft lottery, ending up in the sixth-overall spot, but they will have two other picks on top of that one inside the top-41 slots this weekend: the 6th, the 37th, and the 41st picks are in possession of the A's.
Antonio Losada|
Baseball insider Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic appeared in the latest episode of Tim Kawakami's podcast for the same outlet and discussed multiple topics, including the prospective relocation of the Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas. Here are some takeaways.
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So close, yet so far away... The Oakland Athletics (25-64) could defeat the Detroit Tigers (38-48) for the third time in a row on Thursday, falling 9-0 to the hosts and short of completing their second sweep of the season.
Antonio Losada|
The Oakland A's, believe it or not, just won their second consecutive game against a fellow MLB franchise on Wednesday. Cand they do it again on Thursday, earn their second sweep of the season, and keep dominating Detroit as it's been the case of late?
Antonio Losada|
It took Oakland Athletics' rookie Esteury Ruiz a few days to finally do it, but the outfielder finally stole an MLB-leading 43rd base on Wednesday on his way to becoming the absolute record-holder among A's rookies in the category.
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The Oakland Athletics (25-63) defeated the Detroit Tigers (37-48) for the second time in a row on Wednesday beating them 12-3 and giving the hosts not a single chance.
Antonio Losada|
Aviators 11th sell out of the year is more than the A's average attendance this year.
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