5/11/2023 0 Comments Rickey henderson howard bryant![]() ![]() Yet to baseball, Oakland and Tampa Bay - not the financially challenged New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers - are the game's two most troubled franchises.īoth are certainly in trouble. The A's franchise, since its inception as the Philadelphia entry of the newly formed American League in 1901, has won the pennant 15 times, again second only to the Yankees. ![]() Five players - Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, Dennis Eckersley and Rickey Henderson - built their Hall of Fame cases in Oakland. Three thousand miles away, the A's have captured six pennants since arriving in Oakland in 1968, second only to the Yankees in that time frame. Other than that, Tropicana Field is perfect, right? AP Photo/Chris O'Meara Since the club's first winning season in 2008, however, the Rays have won a pennant and two American League East titles, have drafted tremendously, and, after stockpiling 10 first-round picks at this month's amateur draft, are being applauded for their fiscal responsibility and talent evaluation in a division in which the two dominant franchises, Boston and New York, share great advantages over every other team in baseball. Teams that had mismanaged their clubs or complained about the public refusing to build them a ballpark could always point to Tampa Bay and feel better. ![]() For the first 10 years of their existence, the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays provided the standard laugh track for big league baseball. ![]()
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