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A's decline arbitration on four : The Athletics declined to offer salary arbitration to their four free agents Monday, including slugger Frank Thomas .

The Oakland Athletics declined to offer salary arbitration to their four free agents Monday, including slugger Frank Thomas.

Of the American League's dozen worst OPS's last season , four belonged to members of the Oakland Athletics.

As I write this late Monday night, we're still waiting for details of the trade that's going to send Matt Holliday to the A's, but there's little doubt that it's going to happen .

Greg Smith might have circled Saturday's game on his calendar. He likes pitching against Seattle.

Francisco Rodriguez earned the save Thursday, but he wasn't in the mood to celebrate.

Home-field advantage and prestige aren't the only advantages of claiming the best record in the American League.

Saunders couldn't have scripted the outcome any better. He gets Pennington to hit a sharp grounder to third base which allows Quinlan to touch third base for the first out, then throw home to get Emil Brown for ...

Padilla came off the DL at Seattle on Tuesday to earn his first win since July 25 by going 5 2/3 innings and allowing one unearned run.

RHP Scott Feldman : Because Vicente Padilla wanted to stay on his regular rest, the Rangers shuffled the rotation Friday and moved Feldman, originally scheduled to start Sunday, up to today.

Tuesday night was shaping up to be the type of low-scoring defeat the A's have perfected this season.

Emil Brown's sacrifice fly capped Oakland's two-run eighth inning that gave the Athletics a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night.

After an outstanding major-league debut on August 5 when he held the Angels to one hit through eight shutout innings, Waters has struggled.

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Pedroia took over the AL lead with a .327 batting average. And he did it from the cleanup spot, the first time he's batted there in the majors.

Bobby Crosby and Emil Brown both scored on a throwing error by Minnesota closer Joe Nathan in the bottom of the ninth inning and the Oakland Athletics beat the Twins 3-2 on Saturday night.

Kurt Suzuki had a pinch-hit, game-winning double in the ninth to lead the Oakland Athletics in a 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins in the opener of a four-game set.

Emil Brown homered and drove in three runs, Rajai Davis had a career-high four hits and the Oakland Athletics beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-5 on Wednesday night.

When the A's lineup card went up on the wall just outside the clubhouse before Sunday's game against the Mariners, you could say some of the Oakland players were slightly out of position.

It was a small thing in the grand scope Saturday night, and reliever Joey Devine said he wasn't reading much into it.