2006 Oakland Athletics Season
The Oakland Athletics' 2006 season was the 106th season of the Athletics franchise and its 43rd in Oakland. The A's finished 1st in the American League West with a record of 93 wins and 69 losses. In the postseason the team swept the Minnesota Twins in three games in the American League Division Series, then were swept in four games by the Detroit Tigers in the American League Championship Series. Their ALCS appearance marks the best postseason result of the Billy Beane era.
It was the last season as manager for Ken Macha and the last season on the team for Barry Zito. The season featured a comeback year from Frank Thomas who had performed poorly the previous two seasons due to injury. Thomas, who signed a one-year deal with the A's for this season, led the team with 39 home runs.
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Famous quotes containing the word season:
“Let us have a good many maples and hickories and scarlet oaks, then, I say. Blaze away! Shall that dirty roll of bunting in the gun-house be all the colors a village can display? A village is not complete, unless it have these trees to mark the season in it. They are important, like the town clock. A village that has them not will not be found to work well. It has a screw loose, an essential part is wanting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)