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Viking Magazine

Palo Alto High School's sports news magazine

Viking Magazine

Palo Alto High School's sports news magazine

Viking Magazine

Boyd selected by Oakland A's in MLB Draft

Boyd selected by Oakland A’s in MLB Draft

Alan Lamarque and Spencer Drazovich, Editor in Chief, News Editor June 5, 2012

Varsity football and baseball player B.J. Boyd ('12) was selected 139th overall today, by the Oakland A's in the fourth round of the 2012 MLB Draft. Boyd batted .507 this year for the Vikings, en route...

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Shopping woes: The Oakland Athletics’ troubling obsession

Peter Dennis, Columnist October 19, 2011

In case you didn’t want to go back to my previous column, the point I’ll be making here is that the Oakland A’s: 2. Stick with prospects that have “proven” themselves in the farm system who...

Frank Thomas hits his first home-run as an A against the New York Yankees on Opening Night in 2006. Thomas might just be the best investment in old and battered goods the A's have ever done. Photo used under Creative Commons from Ken Nakano.

Why Moneyball is flawed

Peter Dennis, Columnist October 14, 2011

As some of all you ‘avid’ readers out there may know, I am a Dodgers fan. No, I won’t pull a Brian Stow on anyone, that was completely and utterly horrific, but I can get into an argument about the...

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