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April 24, 2019 4:16:am EST

Last year's failures will look to spark a new era, loaded with a precious early first round pick (or three in total as is the case with the Oakland Raiders), fans place an enormous amount of pressure on the top end of the organisation to pick wisely. No more so than the Arizona Cardinals, who must use the No 1 pick wisely to reinvigorate a franchise on the slide. Oklahoma's Kyler Murray, who turned his back on a career in MLB with the Oakland Athletics, looks most likely to be the first pick of 2019. Continue to Article

April 23, 2019 3:36:pm EST

Last fall, it seemed a foregone conclusion that Kyler Murray would end up playing professional baseball. The Oakland A's had selected the Oklahoma outfielder with the ninth pick of the 2018 draft and signed him to a deal worth nearly $5 million. A stipulation of the contract allowed him to play one more year of football for the Sooners, something Murray made clear was a priority to him. Continue to Article

April 16, 2019 7:56:pm EST

Two days after coughing up a five-run lead, the Texas Rangers scored four runs in the bottom of the eighth to finish erasing their own five-run deficit and defeat the Oakland Athletics 8-7 on Sunday afternoon. Rangers pinch hitter Danny Santana, in his first at-bat of the season, tied the game at 7-7 with a two-run triple to deep right off A's reliever Joakim Soria (0-2) in the bottom of the eighth. Steven Piscotty and Matt Chapman went deep as Oakland set a franchise mark with its seventh consecutive multi-homer game. Continue to Article

April 14, 2019 11:41:pm EST

Saturday night's game between the Texas Rangers and visiting Oakland Athletics was postponed after a nearly hour-long rain delay, before it ever got started. The game will be made up as part of a split day-night doubleheader on Saturday, June 8. In between those games, the Rangers will retire Adrian Beltre's No. 29. Continue to Article

April 13, 2019 9:43:pm EST