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2024 Oakland Athletics season

major League Baseball season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ122898152 ↗
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The 2024 season was the 124th season for the Oakland Athletics franchise, and the 57th in Oakland. It was the Athletics' final season in Oakland, before the team relocated after the owners approved the move unanimously on November 16, 2023. The team took temporary residency in West Sacramento for three seasons at Sutter Health Park, operating as just the Athletics during that period of time.

This was the first season for Jenny Cavnar as play-by-play announcer for A's broadcasts on NBC Sports California, thus becoming the first female primary announcer in MLB history.

With a win over the New York Mets on August 13, the Athletics improved on their record from the previous season.

Transactions

October 2023

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November 2023

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December 2023

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January 2024

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February 2024

March 2024

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Season standings

American League West

American League Wild Card

Record vs. opponents

Record vs. American League

Updated with the results of all games through September 30, 2024.

Record vs. National League

Updated with the results of all games through September 30, 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “2024 Oakland Athletics season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.