Justin Duchscherer News

Topping the to-do list: Pitching was awful -- starters, relievers, hot dog vendors called to throw an inning.

The A's created some waves last winter by trading for Matt Holliday and signing free agent Jason Giambi.

Billy Beane of the A's spent the general managers' meetings in Chicago this week combing for third-base possibilities because the team does not have an automatic option there next season.

Now starts the busy part of the offseason. The annual GM Meetings opened Monday in Chicago, the awards season kicks off in earnest Tuesday with the announcement of the American League's Gold Glove winners, and free-agent rumors are already running rampant.

Veteran outfielder Bobby Abreu agreed Thursday to a $19 million, two-year contract to stay with the Los Angeles Angels rather than test the free-agent market again.

Now that baseball's postseason is over, it's time to fire up the Hot Stove. Eligible players are free to file for free agency the day after the World Series ends, so Hideki Matsui's heroics to help the Yankees close out the Phillies on Wednesday opened the filing floodgates.

Why didn't the A's go after pitching before last season? Also, are they going to re-sign Adam Kennedy? -- Danny S., Alta Loma, Calif.

What do you think the chances are of the A's re-signing Justin Duchscherer? I think we would be able to sign him for the same price as last year, and if he's healthy, to have him, Dallas Braden, Brett Anderson, Trevor Cahill and Gio Gonzalez would give us a pretty solid starting staff.

If the A's were conducting a clinical trial or product testing, this past season might be considered Phase 1: Pitching.

A's general manager Billy Beane didn't sugarcoat things during his season-ending media address Monday afternoon at the Oakland Coliseum.

A's manager Bob Geren tends to paint everything in the rosiest possible hues. His boss, general manager Billy Beane, takes a more balanced view.

Major News about Prince Fielder has come out stating that he is on the trading block and now would be the perfect time for the young A's to pick up a proven power hitter and if it means trading away some prospects then so be it! Prince Fielder would bring excitement back to the Oakland Coliseum! Not only that it would mean that the A's would have ...

Media conglomerate Tribune Co. announced a definitive agreement Friday to sell all but a 5 percent stake in the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field to the billionaire Ricketts family, capping a tortuous process that began nearly 2 years ago.

Expanding to a six-man rotation to save the workload on their rookie starters remains a priority for the A's. With Dallas Braden and Justin Duchscherer unavailable for the foreseeable future, the team is considering both trade and free-agent possibilities to bring in extra arms.

Then again, who better to have more bad luck than a team that has been up to its collective eyelids in it all year? With all due respect to Sunday's 9-4 win over Detroit, this has been in many ways a far worse year for the A's than even 2008, a year so bad that Lew Wolff leaned on Billy Beane to sign a few players who people outside the Baseball ...

Duchscherer has been out all year after undergoing right elbow surgery in March.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Detroit Tigers are scouting two-time All-Star Justin Duchscherer of the Oakland Athletics.

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Brett Tomko will be called up Monday to start against the Yankees - the team that released him in July - because Justin Duchscherer is again out with a "non baseball-related" issue, according to the A's. The team will not say if it's the same issue that scratched him from a start at the end of July or if it's something new.

The A's remain cautious in their discussion of right-hander Justin Duchscherer, who appears no sure thing to come off the disabled list and start Tuesday against the Yankees.