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It hasn’t been a banner season for the Oakland A’s, but 2015 may still go down as one of the more memorable years in team history.

The best action in the Oakland A's-Detroit Tigers playoff series may not take place on the field.

The clubhouse for the Oakland Athletics had some unhappy players on Friday after it was announced that just four days after being named first baseman for the team, Kila Ka’aihue has been designated for assignment. And the timing couldn’t be much worse for  Ka’aihue.

Could ‘Moneyball’ be Brad Pitt’s ticket to the Oscars? On Thursday, Columbia released the trailer for the highly anticipated adaptation of Michael Lewis’ ‘Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,’ in which Pitt plays Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane, a man who used sabermetric principles to boost his team’s winning record on a tight budget.

Justine Siegal pitched batting practice at the Cleveland Indians' spring training facility in Goodyear, Arizona, marking the first time a woman has ever performed this task. She will pitch batting practice again today, this time for the Oakland A's. This isn't the first time the 36-year-old has been a baseball gender pioneer -- in 2009 Siegal became the first woman to coach first base for a men's