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The Oakland A's' Ten Greatest Hitters of All Time.

With a remarkable young core, trusty veterans and stable leadership, the A's have become baseball's best story of 2018.

Reggie Jackson had an interesting answer when he was asked Friday who is the best all-time player in Oakland A’s history.

The A's lost 87 games in 2017, after having lost 93 and 94 games in the two seasons before that, and so we're not here to tell you they're going to be the favorites in the American League West in 2018. Not with the defending World Series champion Astros and their potentially historic lineup still there, not with Shohei Ohtani, Ian Kinsler, and Zack Cozart joining Mike Trout with the Angels, and not with the Mariners and Rangers trying to compete this year as well.

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The A's lost 87 games in 2017, after having lost 93 and 94 games in the two seasons before that, and so we're not here to tell you they're going to be the favorites in the American League West in 2018. Not with the defending World Series champion Astros and their potentially historic lineup still there, not with Shohei Ohtani, Ian Kinsler, and Zack Cozart joining Mike Trout with the Angels, and not with the Mariners and Rangers trying to compete this year as well.

Top to bottom this roster is strength on top of strength.

This is a list of the greatest Oakland Athletics ever. Founded in Philadelphia in 1901, the team now known as the Oakland Athletics (or Oakland A's).

The Oakland Athletics have a history of talented and interesting players. The club was born in Philadelphia in 1901, left for Kansas City in 1955, and finally settled in Oakland in 1968.

View complete team and player batting statistics for the Oakland Athletics on ESPN.com, including batting average, home runs, hits, RBIs and more.