What is Oakland Athletics?

Answer 1

The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team that was formed in 1901, and Connie Mack was their first manager. He managed for 50 years. Their last World Championship came in 1989, the "Earthquake Series." It was named the Earthquake Series because the Giants and the Athletics were playing as a vast earthquake crashed in Oakland. The game was called that the Athletics won, and they went on to sweep the Giants, 4 games to none. In 2011, their starting lineup was:

RF: David DeJesus

CF: CoCo Crisp

LF: Josh Willingham

1B: Daric Barton

2B: Mark Ellis

3B: Kevin Kouzmanoff

SS: Cliff Pennington

C: Kurt Suzuki

Designated Hitter (DH): Hideki Matsui

Their pitching rotation went out like this:

SP: Trevor Cahill

SP: Brett Anderson

SP: Gio Gonzalez

SP: Dallas Braden

SP: Rich Harden

LR: Graham Godfrey

LR: Trystan Magnuson

MR: Joey Devine

MR: Brad Ziegler

SU: Michael Wuertz

SU: Brian Fuentes

CL: 2009 Rookie of the Year Andrew Bailey

The Oakland Athletics have juggled around with who pitches in the rotation, and the pitchers that have started in 2011 were:

Graham Godfrey

Rich Harden

Brandon McCarthy

Josh Outman

Trevor Cahill

Brett Anderson

Gio Gonzalez

Dallas Braden