by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor June 5, 2020 After announcing last week that the A’s organization would stop paying its minor league players their $400 weekly stipend, team owner John Fisher reversed course on Friday and announced in an interview with Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle…
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by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor Lost in yesterday’s news about the A’s ending payments to their minor league players this season was the fact that the A’s have also decided to furlough the majority of their scouts and player development staff. The organization is furloughing almost all of…
View More A’s Scouting & Player Development Furloughs: What Does It Mean For The Future?by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor After word broke early on Tuesday that the A’s would be furloughing much of their baseball operations staff, including most of their player-development employees and pro and amateur scouts, news came later in the day that the organization would also stop paying its…
View More A’s To Stop Paying Minor Leaguers: Players Reactby Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor After Tuesday’s report by Bob Nightengale in USA Today that MLB officials are now feeling optimistic about the prospect of beginning the season before the end of June in major league stadiums, another report surfaced on Wednesday with a far less rosy outlook…
View More Could the 2020 Minor League Season Be Cancelled?by Bill Moriarity / A’s Farm Editor A few years ago, we produced a video tribute to the division-winning 2013 Oakland A’s – a team that featured such memorable players as Coco Crisp, Brandon Moss, Josh Reddick and Josh Donaldson. And this year, we’ve followed up with a swingin’ video…
View More A Swingin’ Video Tribute To The 2018 A’s To Start The Season Off Right!by Josh Moore / A’s Farm Contributor A brief look at some of the top performers in the A’s minor league system over the past week… 1) RHP Grant Holmes (Midland – AA) (14 IP/9 H/2 ER/1 BB/17 K/1.29 ERA/0.71 WHIP) Coming in to the week, Holmes had allowed 43…
View More Top 10 A’s Prospects of the Week (6/4-10)by Josh Moore / A’s Farm Stockton Correspondent It should come as no surprise that Sonny Gray’s first official minor league rehab start on Saturday attracted a lot of curious and concerned onlookers in Stockton. Among those in attendance at the nearly sold-out Banner Island Ballpark were A’s pitching coach…
View More Sonny Gray Back on Track in Impressive Rehab Start for Stocktonby Joseph Hartsock / A’s Farm Arizona Correspondent Today, I had the opportunity to watch Sonny Gray pitch in an extended spring training game against the Angels at the A’s minor league complex at Fitch Park in Mesa, Arizona. The 27-year-old Gray suffered a lat stain during spring training and,…
View More Sonny Gray Returns to the Mound in ArizonaAs soon as the players from the A’s 2002 draft class entered the system to begin their professional baseball careers, former MTV journalist Tabitha Soren began photographing them and documenting their journeys. Of course, this was the draft class that was documented in the well-known tome “Moneyball.” Many A’s fans…
View More A’s Minor Leaguers Star in Tabitha Soren’s ‘Fantasy Life’Last week, we brought you a great little ditty from The Baseball Project called “They Are The Oakland A’s.” And this week, we’ve decided to take it to another level by putting together our own video for the song filled with highlights from the team’s last two seasons and more. So…
View More A Swingin’ A’s Music Video To Start The Season Off Right!The Baseball Project – featuring members of R.E.M., The Dream Syndicate and Young Fresh Fellows – is releasing their third album, titled 3rd, next Tuesday, March 25th. All the songs are about baseball, but only one of them is about the Oakland A’s. We’ve got it right here, and I…
View More The Baseball Project releases new anthem for A’s fans, “They Are The Oakland A’s”Well, the results are in – and A’s Farm was ranked in the Top 5 MLB blogs for 2013! At our peak late in the season, we were averaging almost 6,000 hits per week and over 20,000 hits per month. And we want to be sure to thank all you devoted A’s…
View More A’s Farm in Top 5 MLB Blogs in 2013!A’s Farm cracked into the top 3 MLB blogs last month, and it looks like we managed to hang on to our top 3 spot again in August. Thanks to all you A’s fans out there who’ve made A’s Farm a regular stop to stay up to date on all the A’s minor…
View More A’s Farm in Top 3 MLB Blogs for 2nd Straight Month!After making it into the top 4 MLB blogs in each of the past two months, A’s Farm finally cracked into the top 3 MLB blogs in the month of July! Thanks to all you A’s fans out there who’ve made A’s Farm a regular stop to stay up to date on all…
View More A’s Farm Cracks into Top 3 MLB Blogs in July!A’s Farm finally cracked into the top 5 MLB blogs last month, and it looks like we managed to hang on to our top 5 spot again in March. Thanks to all you A’s fans out there who’ve made A’s Farm a regular stop to stay up to date on…
View More A’s Farm in Top 5 MLB Blogs for Second Straight Month in March!Well, we’d made it as high as #6 before, but last month, for the first time, A’s Farm finally cracked into the top 5 as the 5th-ranked MLB blog for the month of February! Thanks to all you A’s fans out there who’ve made A’s Farm a regular stop to…
View More A’s Farm Cracks into Top 5 MLB Blogs in February!Well, the results are in – and in our first year out of the box, A’s Farm was ranked in the Top 10 MLB blogs for 2012! At our peak late in the season, we were averaging almost 5,000 hits per week and almost 20,000 hits per month. And we…
View More A’s Farm in Top 10 MLB Blogs in 2012!For the 5th month in a row, A’s Farm has been ranked in the Top 10 MLB blogs – and this month we were ranked #6 for the second straight month! Thanks to everyone who’s made A’s Farm a regular stop to get all the latest news on the A’s prospects and affiliates. If…
View More A’s Farm in Top 10 MLB Blogs for 5th Straight Month!For the 4th month in a row, A’s Farm has been ranked in the Top 10 MLB blogs – and this month we climbed all the way up to #6! Thanks to everyone who’s made A’s Farm a daily stop to get the latest news on all the A’s prospects…
View More A’s Farm in Top 10 MLB Blogs for 4th Straight Month!For the 3rd month in a row, A’s Farm has been ranked in the Top 10 MLB blogs! Thanks to everyone who’s made A’s Farm a daily stop to get the latest news on all the A’s prospects down on the farm. If you haven’t already, be sure to…
View More A’s Farm in Top 10 MLB Blogs for 3rd Straight Month!