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Billy "Moneyball" Beane is very fond of Yankees' GM Brian Cashman.

The Oakland Athletics have agreed to terms of a two-year contract with shortstop Hiroyuki Nakajima of Japan's Seibu Lions.

For the big names this winter, the Yankees will likely be outspent.

With help from the blog network writers, here are reasons each team can win the World Series. St. Louis Cardinals 1. A potent, balanced lineup. The Cardinals had the best on-base percentage in baseball, including four starters -- Matt Holliday, J...

The Oakland Athletics are close to tying up general manager Billy Beane and team president Michael Crowley through 2019, as Susan Slusser writes. But these contracts are probably somewhat like those $100 million deals that NFL quarterbacks get: Nobod...

Blog | February 08, 2012

Buster Olney writes that while the Oakland A's are close to signing GM Billy Beane through the 2019 season, Beane's future in Oakland isn't crystal clear. If the club's future remains in doubt, Beane likely would have other job offers to choose from.

Blog | Conversation | February 08, 2012

Jim Bowden, our ESPN and Sirius-XM insider, has opened up his GM office again and tried to find a starting pitcher for Brian Cashman. The proposal for Gio Gonzalez that Bowden has come up with is one that I think Cashman would strongly consider. ...

It's rare to see a team trade a potential ace before he is eligible for salary arbitration, but that's exactly what the San Diego Padres did Saturday when they sent Mat Latos to the Cincinnati Reds for first baseman Yonder Alonso, catcher Yasmani Gra...

Blog | December 21, 2011

During baseball's offseason, there's no better place to get face time with a potential trade partner than the winter meetings. Major League Baseball's winter meetings have evolved considerably since the days when teams used the meetings solely as ...

Blog | December 04, 2011

The Yankees' unlimited resources mean they can afford big busts like Carl Pavano. Amanda Rykoff hopes the team will laugh all the way to a 28th title.

Bob Melvin is Billy Beane's new man to lead the Athletics for the long haul, or so Oakland's general manager hopes.

With his banged-up team mired in a nine-game losing streak and rampant speculation about the tenuous status of manager Bob Geren, general manager Billy Beane felt he had no other choice than to make a change at skipper.

No person, perhaps in the history of media-covered sports, deserved a Twitter account more than the surly, bombastic and often ruthless George Steinbrenner. Buster Olney lets him have one for a run and checks the results.

Blog | Conversation | January 27, 2011

Boston and New York have been working amid an arms race that goes back decades. But this offseason, so many moves across the league seemed to be in response to others within a division. The trend has certainly moved to the AL West.

Blog | Conversation | January 26, 2011

The A's and free agent slugger Hideki Matsui finalized a one-year contract Tuesday after he passed a physical.

Want to know what predicts postseason success? Beat your peers, not the scrubs.

Story | Conversation | October 05, 2010