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The Billy Beane days are over for the A's, and major league baseball wants them to be more competitive in player salaries. Their offense has multiple deeper sleepers and two risk/reward players who must prove that last year wasn't a fluke. Deep Sleeper: Tyler Soderstrom, Athletics Oakland Athletics First Baseman Tyler Soderstrom / Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images Soderstrom is getting a lot of respect in the early draft season. I don't know if it's due to him possibly earning catcher eligibility or Roster Resource listing him as the Athletics starting first baseman with a middle-of-the-order opportunity. He has plenty of power while falling short in major league experience. I liked his bat in 2024

The No. 3 Arkansas baseball team (16-2, 0-1 SEC) dropped their Southeastern Conference opener Friday with a 10-6 loss to the No. 13 Ole Miss Rebels (15-2, 1-0 SEC) at Swayze Field in Oxford, Mississippi. Ole Miss right fielder Mitchell Sanford drove in four runs on three hits for the Rebels, who plated 10 runs on 14 hits as a team.

“Five words,” Aaron Miles, second-year manager of the Pioneer League Oakland Ballers, told us. Whether it was us, the 10 media members, social media influencers and local politicians invited to take part in the independent team's second annual open tryout over the weekend at Raimondi Park, or the guys with metal spikes and baseball pants, we were all varying degrees of long shots for a roster much closer to full form that it was a year ago. Two months out from the start of their second season, the Ballers are on their most stable footing yet, co-founder Paul Freedman tells me behind the batting cage. Freedman left his job running an education startup to follow his passion as an Oakland baseball fan for days like today.

Athletics outfielder Lawrence Butler is extra motivated to make the 2025 MLB All-Star Game in his hometown of Atlanta.

The Arizona Diamondbacks emerged victorious over the Oakland Athletics, 7-5, in the concluding game of the Big League Weekend Spring Training series at Las Vegas Ballpark. The two-game series drew a total attendance of 16,838, with 8,130 fans witnessing the finale. The Athletics initially took a commanding 4-0 lead after three innings, highlighted by catcher Jhonny Pereda's performance.

The Athletics have shared updated renderings of their proposed $1.75 billion stadium on the Las Vegas Strip.

Outfielder Lawrence Butler agreed to a $65.5 million, seven-year contract with the Athletics, a person with direct knowledge of the negotiations said Thursday night, the latest big-money deal for a team suddenly spending as it prepares to play three seasons in a minor league ballpark. Butler earned $627,000 last season under a split contract that paid at a rate of the $740,000 minimum while in the major leagues and $121,826 while in the minors.

When Matt Dooley began filming a documentary chronicling the 57-year history of the A's in Oakland and the fans that supported them, he did so without knowing how it would end. “In 2023, we didn't know which way it was going to go,” Dooley said in a phone interview this week. The original title was “For the Love of the Game,” with apologies to the 1999 fictional baseball film starring Kevin Costner as an aging pitcher. When it premieres at the Chabot Theater Saturday night (there are no tickets remaining for a free showing) in Castro Valley, the end result is “The Last Game.”

March 7 (UPI) -- Right fielder Lawrence Butler agreed to a seven-year, $65.5 million contract extension with the Oakland Athletics. Sources told MLB.com , The Athletic and ESPN about the pact Thursday night. The agreement, yet to be confirmed by the Athletics, is pending a physical. Advertisement

Baseball fans in Las Vegas won't have to wait until 2028 to see the Oakland Athletics in action. The Athletics will be playing at the Las Vegas Ballpark this weekend as part of Big League Weekend. The Athletics will go head-to-head with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday and Sunday. Both games are scheduled to start just after 1 p.m., and tickets are still available.

Former Seattle Mariners first baseman Justin Turner leveled heavy criticism against ownership of the team for their unwillingness to spend money to add offensive talent this offseason.

Fans of the Athletics have seen it all over the years — especially with a location change to Sacramento ahead of the planned move to Las Vegas — but one thing people don't forget are the memorable moments and players behind them. Catfish Hunter was a right-handed pitcher who played for the Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees and the Oakland Athletics.

Oakland rapper Too $hort and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong have expanded their horizons from music to baseball. The two Bay Area musical icons are pitching in financially as members in the ownership group of the Oakland Ballers, a minor league franchise in the independent Pioneer League, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The team is filling the void left by MLB's Oakland Athletics, who are playing their 2025 home games in Sacramento, California, before relocating to Las Vegas after a new stadium is built.

Oakland rapper Too $hort and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong have expanded their horizons from music to baseball. The two Bay Area musical icons are pitching in financially as members in the ownership group of the Oakland Ballers, a minor league franchise in the independent Pioneer League, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The team is filling the void left by MLB's Oakland Athletics, who are playing their 2025 home games in Sacramento, California, before relocating to Las Vegas after a new stadium is built.

With the baseball season right around the corner, fans in Oakland are either reluctantly gearing up for another A's season, or trying to ignore the franchise completely. In a recent report from Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle, she spoke with Tony Clark, the head of the MLB Players Association, about an array of topics concerning the A's and Giants.

The Seattle Mariners claimed right-handed relief pitcher Seth Martinez off waivers from the Miami Marlins on Sunday. To clear a roster spot, right-handed reliever Jackson Kowar was placed on the 60-day injured list.

The Athletics' official address is in West Sacramento, but if a celebration of Oakland sports Saturday is any indication, the community that supported them for the last 57 years is thriving without them. Fans Fest 2025 had a different vibe than the inaugural event a year ago, before news had broken of the A's plans for a temporary stopover in the state capital while awaiting new digs in Las Vegas. “It's kind of like an ex-girlfriend,” said Jorge Leon of the non-profit Oakland 68s. The 68s and Last Dive Bar put on the event, staged in the area of Raimondi Park (home of the Pioneer League Oakland Ballers) and the Prescott Market.

Athletics outfielder Lawrence Butler believes he’s one of the more slept-on names in MLB.

The Athletics are out of Oakland and playing their first season in Sacramento. After playing an important role in the New York Mets' run to the NLCS, Severino is joining an Athletics team looking to make the playoffs for the first time since 2020. “Nobody's expecting us to come out and make the playoffs,” Severino said.