DOUBLE-A CENTRAL LEAGUE Midland RockHounds 6 Frisco RoughRiders 5 WP: Erwin 1-1 / 11.57 HR: Bride (1) Prospect Of The Game: First Baseman Jonah Bride (2 for 3 / Home Run / 2 RBIs) The RockHounds snapped a three-game losing streak to notch their first win of…
View More Friday, May 7th: Bride Helps Hounds Notch 1st Win While Soderstrom Swings Hot Bat for StocktonTag: Oakland Athletics minor league players
Thursday, May 6th: Simoneit Keeps Slugging For Lugnuts While Bolt Is Back In Action For Aviators
HIGH-A CENTRAL LEAGUE Lake County Captains 7 Lansing Lugnuts 6 LP: Cerny 0-1 / 27.00 Prospect Of The Game: Designated Hitter Will Simoneit (2 for 5 / 2 Doubles / 2 RBIs) On a day when all four of the A’s affiliates went…
View More Thursday, May 6th: Simoneit Keeps Slugging For Lugnuts While Bolt Is Back In Action For AviatorsWednesday, May 5th: Butler Helps Ports Prevail While Hounds & Lugnuts Fall
LOW-A WEST LEAGUE Stockton Ports 8 Modesto Nuts 3 WP: Coletti 1-0 / 0.00 Prospect Of The Game: First Baseman Lawrence Butler (0 for 1 / 4 Walks / 3 Runs / 3 Stolen Bases) The Ports used 11 hits and 9 walks to put 8 runs on…
View More Wednesday, May 5th: Butler Helps Ports Prevail While Hounds & Lugnuts FallTuesday, May 4th: Shuman & Diaz Lead Lugnuts to Opening Night Win while Soderstrom Notches 1st Hit for Ports
HIGH-A CENTRAL LEAGUE Lake County Captains 1 Lansing Lugnuts 8 WP: Tomioka 1-0 / 0.00 HR: J.Diaz (1) Prospect Of The Game: Pitcher Seth Shuman (4 IP / 2 H / 0 ER / 0 BB / 7 K) The Lansing Lugnuts made…
View More Tuesday, May 4th: Shuman & Diaz Lead Lugnuts to Opening Night Win while Soderstrom Notches 1st Hit for PortsMeet Your 2021 Las Vegas Aviators!
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor April 3, 2021 Now that major league spring training has wrapped up and the regular season has kicked off, minor league spring training camp has gotten underway in Arizona. But 26 of the A’s upper-level minor league players are now working out at…
View More Meet Your 2021 Las Vegas Aviators!A’s Farm’s 2021 Top 10 Prospects List
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor March 7, 2021 Now that spring training has gotten underway, it’s time to present A’s Farm’s 2021 Top 10 Prospects List. After a lost season for most minor leaguers in 2020, there’s not a whole lot of new information to be able to evaluate…
View More A’s Farm’s 2021 Top 10 Prospects ListA’s 2021 Minor League Staff Includes Some Familiar Names
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor December 15, 2020 The A’s announced their 2021 minor league coaching staff on Tuesday, and some familiar names to A’s fans were included in the mix. Former A’s Rookie of the Year shortstop Bobby Crosby will manage Double-A Midland, while former A’s third…
View More A’s 2021 Minor League Staff Includes Some Familiar NamesA’s Pick Up 4 Players In Rule-5 Draft
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor December 10, 2020 A great many things were quite different in the baseball world this season. But some things have remained the same – like baseball’s Rule-5 draft. The annual process took place on Thursday, and the A’s picked up a pair of…
View More A’s Pick Up 4 Players In Rule-5 DraftA’s Announce New Affiliate Lineup
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor December 9, 2020 Major League Baseball unveiled a large portion of its minor league reorganization plan on Wednesday. And as part of that restructuring, the A’s extended invitations to four minor league teams to serve as their affiliates. The teams are the…
View More A’s Announce New Affiliate LineupDown On The Farm With A’s Special Assistant Grady Fuson
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor October 30, 2020 After originally joining the A’s organization as an area scout under the Billy Martin regime back in 1982, Grady Fuson rose through the ranks and eventually ended up serving as the A’s scouting director from 1995 until 2001. It proved to be a very…
View More Down On The Farm With A’s Special Assistant Grady FusonInstructional League Roster: A’s Top Prospects Back In Action In Arizona
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor October 16, 2020 After a lost minor league season, many of the A’s top prospects are currently participating in the A’s fall instructional league camp at the team’s minor league complex in Mesa, Arizona. Some of the prospects at the camp also participated…
View More Instructional League Roster: A’s Top Prospects Back In Action In ArizonaA’s Triple-A Manager Fran Riordan Talks Top Prospects
By Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor September 20, 2020 After spending 14 seasons managing in the independent leagues, Fran Riordan joined the A’s organization in 2015 when he was brought on board to skipper Beloit, the A’s affiliate in the Class-A Midwest League. After two seasons with the Snappers,…
View More A’s Triple-A Manager Fran Riordan Talks Top ProspectsTalking Top Pitching Prospects With A’s Triple-A Pitching Coach Rick Rodriguez
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor September 1, 2020 Rick Rodriguez has served as the pitching coach for the A’s Triple-A affiliates in Sacramento, Nashville and Las Vegas, where he’s had a hand in developing a number of the A’s most talented pitchers over the past many years. The…
View More Talking Top Pitching Prospects With A’s Triple-A Pitching Coach Rick RodriguezA’s Farm Director Ed Sprague Offers The Inside Scoop On A’s Top Prospects
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor August 27, 2020 In his first year as the A’s director of player development, Ed Sprague certainly didn’t expect to be spending the summer in San Jose. But with the minor league season cancelled this year, that’s exactly where the northern California native…
View More A’s Farm Director Ed Sprague Offers The Inside Scoop On A’s Top ProspectsBaseball America’s Updated Prospect Rankings: Who’s Up? Who’s Down?
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor August 12, 2020 Just as MLB Pipeline recently updated its prospect rankings, Baseball America recently published its own up-to-date midseason prospect rankings. Not only did Baseball America’s prospect hounds recalibrate their top 100 prospects in all of baseball and their top 30 prospects…
View More Baseball America’s Updated Prospect Rankings: Who’s Up? Who’s Down?MLB Pipeline’s Updated Prospect Rankings: Who’s Up? Who’s Down?
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor August 11, 2020 MLB Pipeline recently updated its prospect rankings from last spring, with some promising young A’s players moving up the charts and others sliding down. MLB.com’s top prospect hounds, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Mike Rosenbaum, recalibrated their top 100 prospects…
View More MLB Pipeline’s Updated Prospect Rankings: Who’s Up? Who’s Down?A’s Announce 60-Man Player Pool For 2020
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor June 28, 2020 (updated July 1, 2020) The A’s announced their 60-man player pool for the 2020 season on Sunday. 42 players will report to the A’s July training camp at the Oakland Coliseum on July 2 with the first workout scheduled for…
View More A’s Announce 60-Man Player Pool For 2020Scouting Director Eric Kubota Offers The Inside Scoop On A’s 2020 Draft Picks
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor June 17, 2020 The man responsible for overseeing the A’s efforts in the amateur draft is scouting director Eric Kubota. Kubota started out his career in the baseball world by interning for the A’s in the mid-‘80s, and he eventually served as the assistant…
View More Scouting Director Eric Kubota Offers The Inside Scoop On A’s 2020 Draft PicksScouts Weigh In On A’s 2020 Draft Picks
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor June 15, 2020 Since last week’s amateur draft was limited to just five rounds this year – down dramatically from the usual 40 – we decided to do a deep dive on the five prospects drafted by the A’s this year. So, we…
View More Scouts Weigh In On A’s 2020 Draft PicksGetting to Know the A’s 2020 Draft Picks
by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor June 11, 2020 With this year’s amateur draft limited to just five rounds, teams were able to complete their draft selections in just two days instead of three this year. And with the second day of the draft wrapping up on Thursday night,…
View More Getting to Know the A’s 2020 Draft Picks