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Mets have asked A's about trading for Danny Valencia
Before the Mets acquired Kelly Johnson from Atlanta last week, they reached out to the Athletics to inquire about Danny Valencia, The Post has learned. Now, with David Wright officially...
Ranking baseball's top 10 GMs -- yes, Cashman makes the list
With the general managers’ meetings having wrapped up Thursday, and with the vast majority of the Hot Stove season still ahead of us, let’s do our annual rankings of the...
Billy Beane isn't cheap about one thing: Using water in a drought
SAN FRANCISCO — A California utility lists Oakland Athletics executive Billy Beane as among the top excessive water users in a district east of San Francisco. A September report from...
This looks like the worst Moneyball team of all time
Since taking over from Sandy Alderson as A’s general manager in 1998, Billy Beane had prided himself that his team has never cratered despite payroll and stadium problems. In that...
'Moneyball' Billy Beane in awe of Mets Big 3's in-your-face velocity
For a story in Friday’s Post, we attempted to place the Mets’ young starting pitching trio of Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey and Noah Syndergaard in historical context. I found it...
The best of baseball: Ranking the top 5 at prime positions
In an age of great pitching, just try to pick the best five. If you take Clayton Kershaw, Felix Hernandez, Max Scherzer, Jon Lester and Chris Sale, you leave out...
Billy Beane's Moneyball is heading for Europe
Moneyball is going to Europe. Dutch soccer club AZ Alkmaar announced Tuesday they have hired Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane as an advisor. AZ Alkmaar, the former team of...
The 50 most fascinating figures in baseball
Rob Manfred’s crises are coming. They are unavoidable when you are the commissioner of a major sport. They also are mostly unpredictable in their scope, timing and content. Maybe you...
Baseball's most over-rated and over-hated in 2014
Merry Christmas! First, let’s catch up on last week’s Pop Quiz question. From Sam Lerman of Queens: In a 1989 episode of "The Golden Girls," Dororthy (Bea Arthur) sarcastically tells...
Billy Beane knows what he's doing, even if nobody else does
SAN DIEGO – Most often asked question at the Winter Meetings: Where is Jon Lester going? Second-most asked question: What is Billy Beane doing? If anything, the Oakland general manager is about...
As talent spreads across the AL, Yankees are the big loser
SAN DIEGO — It is not just that the Yankees lost David Robertson. As with Robinson Cano last year, the Yankees for a second straight offseason lost a rare homegrown star to...
A's on verge of dealing Samardzija in massive retool
SAN DIEGO — As aggressive as they were in adding to what Billy Beane thought could be a championship team during the season when he obtained Jon Lester, Jeff Samardzija...
Did nasty Beane-Donaldson clash lead to surprise A's trade?
Looks like we have an opening scene for “Moneyball II: It’s Still Working.” And we also could have a better idea why the A’s traded budding star Josh Donaldson to...
7 unforgettable things about Royals-A's playoff thriller
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- You could smell the champagne from outside the Royals’ clubhouse, and once you entered early Wednesday morning, after the Royals outlasted the A’s in the American...
This A's collapse is real and spectacular
On paper, Billy Beane's moves made sense, trading for elite starting pitchers Jon Lester and Jeff Samardzija. But that was merely on paper. Instead of challenging for the World Series — as...
Why the tanking A's hold Billy Beane's reputation in the balance
It is possible no team has traveled as far in one year as the 2014 Oakland A’s — and we are not even considering the 47,259 miles (second in the...
Billy Beane taunted by rival GM after trade flurry
Moneyball, meet Funnyball. Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane might have thought he had won the day at the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline with his splashy pickup of Red...
Why Billy Beane decided he had to go for it
The Oakland Athletics – yes, the Oakland Athletics of the small payroll and huge stadium problems – are dominating the trade deadline. A friend of Billy Beane told me last...
Red Sox send Lester to A's in monster swap for Cespedes
Red Sox ace Jon Lester is headed to the Oakland A's in exchange for outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, according to The Post's Joel Sherman. Outfielder Jonny Gomes also is going to...
Beane's Moneyball tactics worth $1.4 billion to A's: study
Billy Beane might not just be the best general manager in baseball. He might be worth more than the greatest baseball player of all-time. According to an in-depth statistical analysis...