What we’re hearing about trade interest in Devin Williams and more from MLB’s winter meetings

What we’re hearing about trade interest in Devin Williams and more from MLB’s winter meetings

DALLAS – Devin Williams is attracting an overwhelming amount of interest on the trade market, with at least 10 teams contacting the Milwaukee Brewers about the star closer, league sources said. The possibility exists that the Brewers end up dealing Williams this week, but a trade at some point later this winter is perhaps more … Read more

The Kafkaesque Journey of the Oakland A’s

The Kafkaesque Journey of the Oakland A’s

The Oakland Coliseum, where the Athletics usually play, is a regular major-league baseball park, with a pitcher’s mound that measures sixty feet six inches from home and bases that are ninety feet apart. But other teams have shinier parks, with fewer sewage issues and fewer feral cats. What would be a beautiful view beyond the … Read more

A good week for fast-food workers; a bad week for Oakland’s team dreams

A good week for fast-food workers; a bad week for Oakland’s team dreams

Fast-food workers California law raising their minimum wage from $16 to $20 an hour took effect April 1.       Oakland The Oakland Athletics announced they will play their next three seasons in Sacramento on their way to Las Vegas, bookending 56 years of Major League Baseball in the East Bay.     Evan … Read more

Q&A: Architect of A’s Las Vegas stadium on Sydney Opera House comps, ‘armadillo’ look

Q&A: Architect of A’s Las Vegas stadium on Sydney Opera House comps, ‘armadillo’ look

The plans for the A’s new stadium in Las Vegas were unveiled Tuesday, with designs produced by the same lead architect who once drew up plans for a new ballpark in Oakland. Bjarke Ingels, who runs an eponymous firm, spoke to The Athletic on Wednesday about those instant comparisons to the Sydney Opera House, the … Read more