Oakland Athletics

Moving fast: Mason Miller emerges

August 8, 2024 Shawn Krest

The weekend before the All-Star Break, the Oakland A’s played the Philadelphia Phillies. Oakland has been one of the worst teams in MLB in recent years. If the baseball world has paid any attention to […]

Wake makes MLB Draft history

August 2, 2024 Shawn Krest

The Cowtown Coliseum is normally home to rodeo events as the premiere attraction of the Fort Worth Stockyards, but, as host of the 2024 MLB Draft, it became Winston-Salem West. Wake Forest was the consensus […]

Another domino falls on road to MLB expansion

April 26, 2023 The Associated Press

The Oakland Athletics will be packing their bags for Las Vegas, a long-expected move that will affect baseball’s fandom far beyond those two cities. MLB is now a significant step closer to expansion, which will […]

Expanded MLB rosters give young players valuable time with big clubs

July 8, 2020 Brett Friedlander

The cancellation of this year’s minor league baseball season was a disappointing blow to many young prospects whose advance up the ranks toward a possible major league career has been put on hold for an […]

100 in 100: Perquimans County’s Jim Hunter, baseball’s ‘Catfish’

June 25, 2020 Brett Friedlander

North State Journal’s 100 in 100 series will showcase the best athlete from each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. From Alamance to Yancey, each county will feature one athlete who stands above the rest. Some […]

MLB Draft’s first day loaded with NC picks

June 5, 2019 Brett Friedlander

A large haul of North Carolina-based talent in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft was even bigger than projected, as six players with state ties had their names called Monday night. The […]