This story was excerpted from Martín Gallegos’ A’s Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. OAKLAND -- Going through his 28th season as a player or coach in the Major Leagues, A’s manager Mark Kotsay thought he had pretty

It's a long season, and things can change in a hurry. That baseball truism has doled out reminders many times already in 2024, and our latest Rookie of the Year poll is yet another example. At the season's halfway point, a panel of 39 MLB.com experts has identified clear front-runners

PHOENIX -- Zack Gelof's A’s legacy has barely begun being written, but on Sunday at Chase Field he secured a milestone that will forever go down in Oakland lore. With a game-tying homer in the fifth inning of the A’s 5-1 loss in their series finale against the D-backs, Gelof

The All-Star Futures Game annually puts more of baseball's top prospects on one field than any other event, and this year's edition is no exception. The 25th annual showcase -- along with the inaugural Futures Skills Showcase -- will feature 39 members of MLB Pipeline's recently updated Top 100 Prospects

The story below is a collaboration between writers from MLB.com and Yahoo Sports, who are joining forces this season to cover topics from around baseball. Phase 2 of 2024 All-Star Game balloting got underway on Sunday, with fans able to vote among the finalists at each position until the ballot

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The All-Star Futures Game is less than two weeks away on July 13 and the First-Year Player Draft will follow shortly behind. One day behind, in fact. It’s about to get very busy in the world of prospects. So as the Major and Minor League seasons pivot toward their second

In a city full of pressing your luck, Jacob Wilson wasn't satisfied with hitting just his first Triple-A home run -- so he hit his second too, giving him his first multihomer game as a pro in one fell swoop. The top Athletics prospect lifted the Aviators to a 12-4

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Once again in 2024, baseball fans can watch Minor League Baseball games across all of MLB's digital platforms. MLB.TV and At Bat subscribers can watch their favorite team's Minor League affiliates in the app at no additional cost, while all MiLB games will be available on MiLB.TV, on the web

PHOENIX -- The A’s came into Saturday’s matinee at Chase Field looking to build some momentum after snapping a five-game losing streak with a win over the D-backs in Friday night’s series opener. Zac Gallen had other ideas. The D-backs' ace returned from the injured list to hold the A’s

PHOENIX -- The A’s spent Thursday’s off-day in Scottsdale, where the temperature reached 112 degrees. They could only hope that some of that heat would transfer to their bats and arms, as the club was riding a five-game losing streak overall and an 11-game skid on the road, which was

ANAHEIM -- Max Schuemann’s double in the second inning appeared to have provided the A’s an early two-run lead on Wednesday afternoon. Then, confusion struck. Armando Alvarez raced around from second base to score the first run. Trailing him from first base was Kyle McCann, who stumbled and nearly fell

Seventeen days before the Guardians will exercise the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 Draft, they've let little slip out regarding their intentions. Their top four candidates appear to be, coincidentally, the top four players on MLB Pipeline's new Draft Top 250 list. Cleveland not only is mulling over

James Hoye, a 16-year Major League Umpire, will serve as the Crew Chief and work behind the plate at Baseball’s 94th All-Star Game presented by Mastercard on Tuesday, July 16th at Globe Life Field in Texas. Hoye will work his second Midsummer Classic following his 2015 assignment in Cincinnati. He

We’ve tweaked and expanded our 2024 Draft rankings for the last time, running the list out to the Top 250. Now less than three weeks away from the start of the Draft, we're getting a clearer picture of how the scouting industry is stacking up the talent in this class.

It's time for our second installment of each team's hottest-hitting Top 30 prospect over the last month. Our list includes eight Top 100 prospects, though the player with the best numbers over the last 30 days occupies the bottom spot on our Top 30 for his organization.

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ANAHEIM -- Armando Alvarez toiled in the Minor Leagues for a long time since he was drafted back in 2016 before making it to the Majors -- eight seasons and 700 games, to be exact. Starting in an MLB game for the first time on Tuesday, Alvarez certainly played like

ANAHEIM -- When Tyler Nevin played his first series at Angel Stadium last year as a member of the Tigers, his father, Phil, was on the other side managing the Angels. It made for quite the special family affair. The circumstances are different this year. Tyler now plays for the

Arkansas' Hagen Smith and Wake Forest's Chase Burns headline the 2024 college pitching crop after breaking the NCAA Division I record for strikeout rate. Both project as easy top-10 picks and potential frontline starters. Yet the college pitching class isn't as deep as once hoped. East Carolina's Trey Yesavage is

OAKLAND -- Brent Rooker angrily snapping his bat over his right knee following his seventh-inning strikeout on Sunday at the Coliseum encapsulated how things went for the A’s offense over the past two days. What started out as a promising homestand earlier in the week ended in frustration. Oakland’s 3-0