Matt Holliday was starting to heat up for the Oakland A’s. On Friday, Oakland sent Holliday back to the National League by trading him to the St. Louis Cardinals. In return, the A’s got three minor league prospects.
On the season, Holliday is hitting .286 with 11 homers and 54 RBIs. He’s also sporting a .378 on-base percentage and 12 stolen bases. The 29-year-old slugger was traded to the A’s prior to the season after playing for the Colorado Rockies during the first five years of his MLB career.
While his numbers with the A’s were good, they weren’t close to his …read more

Justin Duchscherer, twice an All-Star for the Oakland Athletics, will miss at least a month after it was announced that he will undergo arthroscopic elbow surgery. The exact date and location of the surgery hasn’t been finalized but the pitcher is expected to have the procedure at some point next week.
Following the surgery, the A’s will have a better idea of how long Duchscherer will be sidelined. Insiders close to the team don’t expect Duchscherer to return until at least the middle of May. However, if the arthroscopic procedure finds more damage than expected, it’s very possible for him to …read more

Did you ever get the urge to throw your water bottle at someone, like we did when we saw that chick at the gym reading a book while doing leg presses?
Well, if the case of 23-year-old Roland Flores is any indication, we urge you to suppress the urge. (That’s not a typo; that was us engaging in wordplay for our own amusement).
Flores chucked a water bottle at Mike Piazza of the Oakland A’s last year during a game against the Anaheim Angels. Piazza was wearing a helmet and was not injured, but that didn’t stop a judge from throwing the book at …read more