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:
“The hour of the waning of love has beset us,
And weary and worn are our sad souls now;
Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us,
With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)