The Athletics have hired former World Series MVP and Athletics Hall of Famer Dave Stewart as a Special Assistant to Player Development for the 2025 season, the club announced Wednesday. In this role, Stewart will assist Director of Player Development Ed Sprague in addition to other members of the baseball

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The 2024 season was one for the books, but as we look ahead to what's next with just weeks to go before Spring Training games get underway, it's clear that the best is yet to come. That, of course, begins with the reveal of MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects list

The Athletics made waves to kick off the 2025 international signing period, adding to their burgeoning farm system by agreeing to deals with shortstop Ayden Johnson (MLB.com’s No. 12 international prospect) and outfielder Darwing Ozuna (No. 16) to headline their international class. The club also landed two-way Japanese star Shotaro

MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2025 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 24, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we'll examine baseball's top 10 prospects at each position.

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After the Athletics addressed rotation and third-base needs earlier this offseason, bullpen help was seemingly the final item on their wish list. Looking to bolster the back end of their bullpen, the A’s agreed on Friday to a one-year contract with right-hander José Leclerc. The deal is worth $10 million,

This page will be updated throughout the offseason to track all of the Athletics' moves, along with the progress of any injured players.

MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2025 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 24, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we'll examine baseball's top 10 prospects at each position.

The A’s will wear two new jersey patches for the 2025 season to celebrate the greater Sacramento area and to honor franchise legend Rickey Henderson. Fans who attend the team’s first game at Sutter Health Park on March 31 will receive two giveaways: a trucker hat featuring the Sacramento patch

The Athletics made waves to kick off the 2025 international signing period, inking 18-year-old two-way player Shotaro Morii to a $1,510,500 million deal, the largest bonus ever for a Japanese amateur outside of Nippon Professional Baseball, according to Yakyu Cosmopolitan. A left-handed hitter with 45 high school home runs to

MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2025 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 24, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we'll examine baseball's top 10 prospects at each position.

Mark your calendars. Spring Breakout is back. The official dates and times of this year’s Spring Training prospect showcase were announced by Major League Baseball on Thursday. The Red Sox and Rays will begin this year’s edition on Thursday, March 13, in Port Charlotte, Fla., and the Reds and Brewers

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We are celebrating the small yet mighty canvas that is the Minor League cap for National Hat Day. Clubs across the Minors utilize them as a fun way to represent their teams, regions and sometimes even their parent organizations. Not to mention they also look pretty sweet. Here's a close

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Ahead of their temporary move to Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento for the next three seasons, the Athletics got a taste of the passion from sports fans in the area while attending a Sacramento Kings game earlier this week just down the road at Golden

Following are the first workout dates, subject to change, both for pitchers and catchers and full squads of the 30 Major League clubs for 2025 Spring Training.

For talented amateur ballplayers from across the globe, there is no day on the calendar quite like Jan. 15. Signaling the opening of the international signing period, it’s the day in which years of hard work and perseverance make dreams come true. Most often, it’s the first step on a

The 2025 international signing window opens Wednesday, and this will be perhaps the most interesting period for that since Shohei Ohtani joined the Angels in 2017. Roki Sasaki has until Jan. 23 to sign with a Major League organization as part of the NPB posting rules, so he might not

SACRAMENTO – Two years ago around this time, just a few weeks before the start of Spring Training, Brent Rooker picked up his phone and called his agent Dustin Bledsoe to weigh on a thought to potentially explore opportunities to play baseball in Japan. By no means was this a

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SACRAMENTO -- Brent Rooker played for a few different organizations early in his career, but it was not until he joined the Athletics in 2023 that he truly established himself as a big leaguer. Since donning the green and gold, Rooker has evolved into one of the better hitters in

In the final installment of the MLB Pipeline Executives Poll, we’re pulling back from the granular and taking a more organizational perspective. After exploring individual players and tools, we’re using a wider lens to see what front offices think about … each other’s operations. All of the questions in Part