<div id="subtitle">Athletics bring in oft-injured pitcher Ben Sheets with $10 million, 1-year deal</div><div><p>Once Billy Beane received positive word on Ben Sheets' throwing session last week, the Oakland general manager pounced. The pitcher's agent had an impressive offer in hand from the Athletics practically by the ...

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top prospect with the Oakland Athletics is retiring from baseball to become a priest, the major league team said in a statement on Friday.</p><p>The Athletics said 23-year-old Grant Desme, an outfielder it selected in the 2007 draft and the most valuable player in ...

In 2003, writer Michael Lewis released a bestselling book, Moneyball. It retold the story of Billy Beane, the general chief of the Oakland A's. The book accredited Beane with popularizing an approach to baseball management that relied more heavily on statistical research than scouting reports. That is to say, Beane was far more interested in the metrics of the ...

<div id="subtitle">Duchscherer set to stay with Athletics on 1-year contract after missing 2009 campaign</div><div><p>Right-hander Justin Duchscherer has reached a preliminary agreement on a one-year contract that would keep him with the Oakland Athletics, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Thursday ...