The longtime executive hired Tony La Russa, whom he worked with in Oakland, to St. Louis as the Cardinals returned to the ...

Jocketty got his start in baseball when he was hired by Charlie Finley and assembled the Bash Brothers by drafting Mark ...

Walt Jocketty, one of the most successful general managers in Major League Baseball, is dead at the age of 74.

The Athletics announced a series of roster moves Wednesday, including the previously reported promotion of prospect Nick Kurtz, which is now official. They also recalled pitchers Grant Holman and ...

The Athletics aren't off ... In last week's series against the Chicago White Sox, NBC Sports California's Dallas Braden — a former Oakland pitcher himself — gave the team's former home a ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Walt Jocketty, the legendary baseball executive who got his start and won a World Series with the Oakland A’s, has died. He was 74. Jocketty died Friday in the Phoenix area ...