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Matt Tuiasosopo comes from a football family - his father, Manu, was a lineman for the Seahawks and 49ers in the 1980s, and his brother, Marques, is a Raiders quarterback. But Matt, who turned down a scholarship to play...
Billy Beane has proven that he only makes trades when he robs the other team. Now, he is looking to deal Joe Blanton, and he is asking for a king's ransom once again.
For example, Beane has asked the Dodgers for Andy LaRoche, Andre Eithier and...
To me, the best GM in baseball is hands down Billy Beane of the Oakland A's. No GM does more with less than Beane. If you haven't heard by now, Beane stresses a "moneyball" approach to baseball his staff uses statistical analysis to evaluate...
Lewis Wolff, the managing general partner of the Oakland Athletics, was kind enough to sit down and do an interview with me last week. The interview is long and pretty much covers all aspects of your team. I want to just publicly thank him for...
At the All-Star break, Oakland was 51-44 and six games behind the Los Angeles Angels in the American League West. Since then, Beane's trades for the future--starting pitchers Joe Blanton, Rich Harden and Danny Haren, and outfielders Mark Kotsay...
Background
William Lamar "Billy" Beane (born March 29, 1962, in Orlando, Florida) is a former Major League Baseball player and the current general manager of the Oakland Athletics.
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4 days ago from The San Jose Mercury News