Oakland Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor has made remarkable progress over the first five weeks of the regular season. He has gone from arguably the biggest question mark on the roster to the team’s unquestioned best offensive threat.
Pryor has been quick to credit offensive coordinator Greg Olson and quarterbacks coach Mark DeFilippo for the improvements he’s made. His timing and comfort level with wide receiver Denarius Moore and Rod Streater have been even more vital in Pryor’s development.
During the offseason Pryor and Streater spent much of their time at a local junior college, working out together. The duo went to Los ...
Back-to-back ALDS losses to the Tigers, despite fighting hard and forcing each series to the maximum five games, could force the A's to re-evaluate whether they have enough impact talent to get deeper into the playoffs.
The continued development of a talented and young starting rotation, including Sonny Gray, Jarrod Parker and Dan Straily, could push them to the next level. But it's likely that general manager Billy Beane will try and add impact talent while the the core of the team remains in their prime and the window of contention is still open.
Beane has added plenty of offense over the past few winters, ...
The Oakland Raiders seemingly didn’t view Terrelle Pryor as a franchise quarterback, or even a solid starter, this offseason when they used their fourth-round pick in the 2013 NFL draft on Tyler Wilson and traded their fifth-round 2014 draft pick to acquire Matt Flynn from the Seattle Seahawks.
The Raiders seemingly still have their doubts about Pryor: They pursued quarterback Josh Freeman (who ultimately signed with the Minnesota Vikings) following his release from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last Thursday and brought in Pat White and David Carr for workouts on Tuesday, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.
If Pryor can continue to ...
Oakland Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor keeps shocking the football world. His first surprise came over the course of the preseason when he beat out veteran Matt Flynn for the starting role. He then surpassed all expectations by playing at a very high level through the first five weeks of the regular season.
Now, he has shown a great deal of maturity and reached out to famed pitching coach Tom House to continue improving as a quarterback.
If you aren't familiar with House, he spent eight years with the Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners as a relief pitcher, and now ...
The Oakland Athletics are 40-27 following a loss since the start of the regular season, which is important to consider when making your MLB picks Thursday, as they prepare to take on the Detroit Tigers at O.co Coliseum.
Sports bettors will find that the Athletics are plus-101 home underdogs in the pro baseball odds, with the betting total sitting at 6.5 in the market.
Let's take a closer look at Game 5 of this 2013 American League Division Series from a betting perspective, while offering up a prediction along the way.
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The Oakland A's are going with the kid.
As manager Bob Melvin explained to Jane Lee of MLB.com on the decision to opt for Sonny Gray over Bartolo Colon:
The rookie turned in a dominant performance in Game 2 as he worked eight scoreless innings. Ultimately, as Melvin told Lee, it was that impressive outing that earned the 2011 first-round pick the nod.
However, as Guy Haberman of 95.7 FM The Game noted, that remarkable debut could actually play against Gray:
Gray has only made 10 regular-season starts, and in that limited time he's never faced the same team in back-to-back outings, so it's ...
Rookie Sonny Gray—not Bartolo Colon—will start Thursday night’s deciding Game 5 of the American League Division Series against the Detroit Tigers.
With the best-of-five ALDS tied at two games apiece and headed back to Oakland, A’s manager Bob Melvin decided to bypass the 40-year-old Colon, an 18-game winner and All-Star during the regular season, in favor of the 23-year-old right-hander.
In the series opener, a 3-2 loss, Colon surrendered three runs in the first inning and put the A’s in an early hole against Max Scherzer. Gray, of course, was brilliant in Game 2, tossing eight shutout innings with nine strikeouts as ...
The Oakland Raiders took a step toward respectability with their Week 5 win over the San Diego Chargers. They can gain even more ground and make an even bigger jump in the AFC West, by doing something no other team has done so far: beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
Oakland has won five of the last six games between the two longtime division rivals, though the stakes haven’t been nearly as high as they are now.
Beating the Chiefs would give the Raiders back-to-back wins for the first time in nearly a year. It would also be more confirmation that the rebuilding ...
After an impressive win at home against the San Diego Chargers, the Oakland Raiders head to Kansas City for their Week 6 matchup with the undefeated Chiefs.
Now at 2-3, a mark that may be a surprise to some, the Raiders have continued to show that if nothing else, they are headed in the right direction as a franchise.
To maintain their current momentum and beat what has been an impressive Chiefs team thus far, the Raiders will need a complete effort on both sides of the ball.
Pulling off the upset, and extending their Arrowhead Stadium win streak to seven games in ...
With a do-or-die situation heading into Game 5 of the ALDS, the Oakland Athletics would be wise to choose rookie starter Sonny Gray to take the mound against Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers.
Jane Lee of MLB.com floated the idea and is reporting that manager Bob Melvin has yet to make a decision on the matter, which points to there being a good shot for Gray to get the nod:
There's a case to be made for rookie Sonny Gray getting the nod over veteran Bartolo Colon for Thursday's decisive Game 5 of the American League Division Series against the Tigers, and it's one the ...