1975 Oakland Athletics season

MLB yearly infobox
name = Oakland Athletics
season = 1975
misc = 1975 AL West Champions

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
division = Western Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark = Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
y4 = 1968
city = Oakland, California
y5 = 1968
owners = Charles O. Finley
managers = Alvin Dark
television = KPIX-TV
radio = KEEN
(Monte Moore, Bob Waller) |The Oakland Athletics' 1975 season involved the A's finishing 1st in the American League West with a record of 98 wins and 64 losses. After the Athletics' victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1974 World Series under Alvin Dark, pitcher Catfish Hunter filed a grievance. He won the American League Cy Young Award in 1974 with a record of 25-12 and a league-leading 2.49 earned run average. Hunter uncovered a violation of his contract with Finley and the A's that allowed him to become a free agent. The A's were to send half of Hunter's $100,000 annual salary to a North Carolina bank as payment on an annuity, but Finley did not comply. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E6DF123DF933A2575AC0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 Catfish Hunter, Who Pitched in 6 World Series for A's and Yankees, Dies at 53 - New York Times ] ] On December 13, 1974, arbitrator Peter Seitz ruled in Hunter’s favor. As a result, Hunter became a free agent, and signed a contract with the Yankees for the 1975 season. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hunteca01.shtml Catfish Hunter page at Baseball Reference] ] Despite the loss of Hunter, the A’s repeated as A.L. West champions in 1975, but lost the ALCS to Boston in a 3-game sweep.

Offseason

*October 23, 1974: Manny Trillo was traded by the Oakland Athletics with Darold Knowles and Bob Locker to the Chicago Cubs for Billy Williams. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/t/trillma01.shtml Manny Trillo page at Baseball Reference] ]
*November 11, 1974: Dal Maxvill was released by the Athletics. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/maxvida01.shtml Dal Maxvill page at Baseball Reference] ]
*March 28, 1975: Jesús Alou was released by the Athletics. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/a/alouje01.shtml Jesús Alou page at Baseball Reference] ]

Regular season

Relocation plans

In by|1975, fed up with poor attendance in Oakland during the team's championship years, Finley pondered relocating the team. When Seattle filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball over the move of the Seattle Pilots to Milwaukee, Finley and others came up with an elaborate shuffle which would move the ailing Chicago White Sox to Seattle. White Sox owner John Allyn was broke and placed under enormous pressure from fellow owners to sell his club to Seattle interests and undercut a lawsuit which Seattle had against them. [ [http://whitesoxinteractive.com/History&Glory/SaveOurSox.htm WSI's FLYINGSOCK.COM. Chicago White Sox coverage with totally biased attitude! ] ] Finley then would move the A's to Chicago [ [http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=56327 K.C. A's - why did Finley almost move to Dallas? - Baseball Fever ] ] , closer to his home in LaPorte, Indiana. The scheme fell through when Arthur Allyn sold the White Sox to another colorful owner, Bill Veeck, who was not interested in leaving Chicago.

eason standings

Notable transactions

*April 6, 1975: The Athletics sent a player to be named later and cash to the Chicago Cubs for Jim Todd. The Athletics completed the deal by sending Champ Summers to the Cubs on April 29. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/summech01.shtml Champ Summers page at Baseball Reference] ]
*May 20, 1975: Blue Moon Odom and cash were traded by the Athletics to the Cleveland Indians for Dick Bosman and Jim Perry. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/o/odombl01.shtml Blue Moon Odom page at Baseball Reference] ]
*June 18, 1975: Brian Kingman was signed by the Athletics as an amateur free agent. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/k/kingmbr01.shtml Brian Kingman page at Baseball Reference] ]
*August 29, 1975: Dal Maxvill was signed as a Free Agent with the Oakland Athletics.

Roster

[http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/OAK/1975.shtml 1975 Oakland Athletics Statistics and Roster - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]

Other batters

Relief pitchers

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/OAK/1975.shtml 1975 Oakland Athletics team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1975&t=OAK 1975 Oakland Athletics team page at www.baseball-almanac.com]

succession box
title = AL West Championship Season
years = 1975
before = Oakland Athletics
1974
after = Kansas City Royals
1976