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Several big names found new homes while others flew under the radar. Either way, it was quite the busy week for baseball transactions.

The Oakland A’s are partnering up with the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles of the Japanese Pacific League: The Rakuten Eagles announced Friday they have entered into a formal one-year partnership with the Oakland Athletics to strengthen both organizations’ baseball operation and management areas. Under the agreement, Rakuten and the A’s will exchange coaching and strength-and-conditioning staff […]

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Lost in Transactions covers a very busy week in Las Vegas.

On Dec. 11, 1959 the Yankees dealt Don Larsen, Hank Bauer and others to the Kansas City Athletics for three players, most notably Roger Maris. This was just one of the many trades between the two franchises during the period, which helped the Yankees dynasty continue and doomed the A’s to a series of second division finishes.

As was mentioned the other day, the A’s still might move to San Jose, but if they do, they’d better not be expecting any handouts: Amid all the talk this week that new challenges in Fremont could be thawing San Jose’s long-frozen hopes for landing a showpiece A’s stadium, city officials Wednesday were cool to […]

At least that’s what KTVU’s Lloyd LaCuesta believes he has discovered: KTVU’s Lloyd La Cuesta came up with a letter from Bud Selig to Lew Wolff stating: “I have decided that in the event you are not able to promptly assure the implementation of the desired park in Fremont, you may begin to discuss a […]

Now that A’s owner Lew Wolff has, at least for now, shelved the idea of building his new ballpark village and just wants a park, he’s getting flexible about the location: Here’s a possible game changer – the Oakland A’s will sit down this week with BART officials to discuss moving the team’s proposed Fremont […]

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Taking a closer look at the Matt Holliday trade from the A’s perspective.