If any of you Internet Explorer users out there were having trouble reading the site recently, sorry about that - I’d made some changes to the blockquote code that looked great in Netscape and Firefox (you know, the browsers that aren’t like an open gateway to viruses and hack attacks), but looked rotten in IE […]

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Every year around this time, the major prospects of each team’s minor systems gather in Arizona for a little Fall Ball. The concept goes that each team supplies six players from AAA or AA and one from the lower leagues to one Fall Ball team, which is duly shared by several other teams. The league […]

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I knew about this a few weeks back, but decided against posting about it because… well, excessive publicity tends to make cool events like this no longer annual affairs, if you know what I mean.
Regardless, the University of British Columbia baseball team had their yearly reunion game this past Saturday at Nat Bailey Stadium, and […]

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Well, you kind of saw it coming, I guess, but it still sucks when it’s official. Mike Klug, the team MVP and underdog fan favorite, has been let go by the Oakland Athletics. 
This is kind of an end-of-year dirty deed that the team simply has no choice but to engage in if they’re to make […]

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Vancouver Canadians GM Delany Dunn has just announced the fireworks lineup for the C’s 2007 season, and it’s a thing of beauty.
You don’t just get one fireworks night. You don’t just get two. You get SIX fireworks nights - that’s nearly one every two weeks of the season!
The official release follows:
After the release of the […]

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Word on the street is that former A’s killing pitcher, Orel Hershiser, is interested in interviewing for the vacant A’s managerial position. Some have asked "why Orel", and crass puns aside, the answer is simple: He qualifies.
But what does it take to qualify for an interview with the Oakland Athletics? What is General Manager Billy […]

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You’ve gotta love the blog world - The Future of A’s Baseball got this from Scout.com, who got it from Baseball America. And I got it from TFOAB.
The blogosphere is just one huge collection of ‘borrowed data’, ain’t it? 
So here it is, without further ado, the list of A’s minor leaguers who have played their […]

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