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The early-August departure of David Forst -- a longtime staple of the Athletics organization who was first hired in 2000 as a scout and held the role of general manager since 2015 -- left the club conducting its first true GM search in nearly three decades. The process has been

Last week, MLB Pipeline revealed its selections for Minor League Hitting Prospect of the Year and Minor League Pitching Prospect of the Year during the 2026 MiLB Awards Show on MLB Network. Brewers corner infielder Andrew Fischer won hitting honors after swatting 48 homers, the most in the Minors since

76% of buyers call Southern Nevada home, showcasing the locally anchored fanbase taking shape ahead of the Club’s debut

The 34th annual Arizona Fall League season is underway, and you can watch top prospects from all 30 MLB organizations throughout October and November as AFL matchups are once again streaming for free on both MLB.com (here and on the AFL site) and MLB.TV. All but five games of the

The Minor League playoffs have been completed. There are only a handful of players with prospect eligibility remaining left in the Major League postseason, and there will be fewer with each passing round. Time for us in prospectdom to go into offseason mode? Not so fast, friends. The Arizona Fall

This page will be updated throughout the offseason to reflect the team's latest transactions and any injury updates. As a reminder, players can remain on the 60-day IL through the World Series, after which teams must account for those players on their 40-man roster.

The A’s announced Thursday that they will not retain hitting coach Chris Cron or quality control coach Marcus Jensen on their 2027 staff. Cron joined the Athletics in 2022 as an assistant hitting coach and had served as hitting coach, alongside Mike Aldrete, since the start of 2024. Aldrete will

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Davis Diaz starred at Acalanes High School in California before heading to spend three years at Vanderbilt, moving around the infield throughout his Commodores career. So it was a little surprising when the A’s took him in the eighth round of the 2024 Draft and announced him

Longtime MLB pitcher Liam Hendriks announced his retirement on Tuesday, via his Instagram account. “After years of staring down hitters, I have decided to officially retire from Major League Baseball,” Hendriks said in his statement. “My arm has told me in no uncertain terms that it has exactly zero fastballs

WEST SACRAMENTO -- This is not the way the Athletics envisioned their 2026 season playing out. A year that began with visions of contending for the playoffs built by a core of promising young players ended much like the previous four seasons played out. Capped by a 9-0 loss to

Action in the Arizona Fall League kicked off over the weekend with a full slate of games, with big names already turning heads. While a lot of attention is understandably given to the high-profile prospects -- the late additions of Sebastian Walcott, Aidan Miller and Angeibel Gomez created some fun

WEST SACRAMENTO -- For Jack Perkins, it’s going to be hard not to think about the strike-call-that-wasn’t as he heads into the offseason. Reaching a 1-2 count against AL MVP favorite Yordan Alvarez with two outs in the fifth, Perkins was one pitch away from striking out the Astros slugger

WEST SACRAMENTO -- A premature ending due to injury dampened what was a promising 2025 rookie campaign for Jacob Lopez. One year later, the Athletics left-hander finished his season on his terms, and he finished it strong.

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WEST SACRAMENTO – The Athletics entered 2026 hopeful that this final series against the Astros to end the regular season would have major playoff implications. Everything is certainly on the line for the Astros, who came into Thursday’s series opener tied with the Rangers for first place in the AL

WEST SACRAMENTO – Athletics manager Mark Kotsay was caught a bit off guard when he glanced up at the TV inside his office last week. Watching MLB Network in the midst of playoff race coverage, the topic on the screen was instead a segment highlighting Henry Bolte. “They were doing

Now in its 34th season, the Arizona Fall League consistently features a mother lode of talent. The developmental circuit had a future Hall of Famer in Mike Piazza in its inaugural year in 1992 and has sent more than 3,000 players to Majors, including three more Cooperstown immortals in Roy

WEST SACRAMENTO – Ahead of Tuesday’s series opener against the Angels at Sutter Health Park, manager Mark Kotsay was asked what would constitute a successful final homestand for the Athletics. His answer was simple. “Put up a winning homestand,” Kotsay said. “These next two games against the Angels and then

WEST SACRAMENTO – When Joshua Kuroda-Grauer underwent emergency surgery to repair a ruptured testicle on July 20, there truly was no sense of when, or if, he might play again this season. This just wasn’t an injury you see very often. The only example that the Athletics could really go

There’s a lot on the line before the 2026 regular season wraps up on Sunday, including postseason seeding, statistical milestones and player development. And even for the players and teams who won’t be chasing a World Series title, finishing the season strong is always important. With the help of MLB.com’s

CLEVELAND – The A’s winless road trip against the Rays and Guardians ended with a two-hour, five-minute rain delay preceding a game in which the only run scored came on a disputed play that got manager Mark Kotsay tossed.

CLEVELAND -- The Athletics are rounding third and heading home. One game at Progressive Field is all that remains on their road schedule for the season. Donovan Walton hit a two-run homer and tied career highs with three hits and four RBIs, but the American League Central-leading Guardians rocked Jacob