First baseman Brandon Allen was a nice upside gamble for the A's at the deadline. (AP) The Yankees are 5-1 against the A’s this season, were 9-1 against them last year, and have gone 26-5 against them dating back to 2008. I’m not sure what to add to that. The A’s aren’t a ...

The non-waiver trade deadline barrels towards us. You can boil the Yankees’ greatest needs down to three areas: It's not what's for dinner. Starting Rotation: The Yankees have three reliable starters in CC Sabathia, Bartolo Colon, and Freddy Garcia, but the last two can’t be taken for granted ...

When I think about this season’s A’s, my mind goes to a pair of tweets that were sent by A’s fan Ken Arneson, the founder of Baseball Toaster and author of the late, lamented Catfish Stew. Two weeks ago, Arneson tweeted: Watching [Jemile] Weeks make stuff happen every night while the ...

You can't see the fork in Hideki Matsui's back from this angle, but you can tell he's trying to knock it loose with his bat. (AP) Things are the same all over in the American League West. The Angels, Mariners, and A’s are three of the four lowest-scoring teams in the AL and also three ...

With the exception of Sirius-XM’s baseball channel, I avoid sports talk radio. The lack of rational analysis gets my blood pressure too high. Every now and again, though, friends who haven’t gone through AM detox like I have will call and say, “What do you think of the plan to move Jeter?” I ...

The A's young rotation led by 22-year-old Trevor Cahill, who starts tonight against Dustin Moseley, gives Billy Beane something to build around in Oakland (AP) I was pretty hard on the A’s in my previews of the Yankees’ last two series against them, but with the smoke beginning to clear ...