Oakland Athletics first baseman Matt Olson went 1-for-4 with a solo home run and a strikeout in Thursday's 7-3 win over the Rays. The moon shot was Olson's ninth of the season. The 24-year-old is hitting the ball extremely hard (52.2 percent hard-contact rate), and only J.D. Martinez is hitting the ball harder this season. Olson should see more HRs if he continues to hit the ball with such authority. He faces a favorable matchup next series against the Royals, whose pitching staff has given up t[...]

Oakland Athletics first baseman Matt Olson provided one of the A's three solo home runs in Saturday's win over the Diamondbacks. Olson crushed a moon shot to straightaway center field off Jorge De La Rosa in the seventh inning. The 24-year-old now has eight HR and 20 RBI in 52 games this season. [...]

Oakland Athletics first baseman Matt Olson got into the offensive explosion with a homer in the 10-5 win over the Blue Jays Thursday. Olson had been struggling as of late but has started to turn things around in the last week with six runs, three homers, and five RBI. He finished the night with a homer (7) and three RBI. Olson continues to strikeout (30.4 %) more than his average so expect even more positive results once he gets in the groove and lowers his strikeout rate while increasing his wa[...]

Oakland Athletics first baseman Matt Olson went 2-for-4 with a solo home run on Monday in a win over the Red Sox. His fifth HR of the season was a scorching line drive into the right center field seats hit off Rick Porcello. Olson flexed his power potential last season but is currently only on pace to hit 20 HRs this season. He faces tough pitching matchups in the remainder of the Red Sox series but should have opportunities to put more bombs on the board the following series against the Blue Ja[...]

After a lengthy cold stretch recently, Olson got back on track with a double and homer in Saturday night's game. He's batting 5th today against the righty Alex Cobb who is allowing a .512 batting average and 1.280 OPS against lefites. Olson has also hit all of his home runs this season off of right handed pitching, so he looks to have a favorable matchup in Sunday's game.

Oakland Athletics first baseman Matt Olson is getting the day off on Wednesday with Mark Canha taking his place and batting sixth. Olson has hit .262 with three home runs, 12 RBI and two stolen bases to start the year. He's coming off of a 24 home run campaign and should be started on most nights he's in the lineup.

With the game in the bottom of the 14th inning, Oakland Athletics first baseman Matt Olson stepped to the plate and hit a walk-off single to give his team the victory. Olson had an overall solid game, going 4-for-6 with three RBI. The Athletics first baseman has been a mixed bag in 2018, hitting .239 with three home runs and six RBI, but he's also struck out 30 times. He's still worthy of a roster spot, and you hope he has more games like he did [...]

Oakland Athletics first baseman Matt Olson had started the first 12 games of the season for the A's, but he will take a back seat from the bench for Oakland's series finale with the Los Angeles Dodgers on [...]

Oakland Athletics first baseman Matt Olson went 2-for-4 against the Angels on Friday with his second homer of the season. His start to the season isn't as quick as others, largely due to a 29.7% strikeout rate. But, Olson will provide the HRs and RBIs at the end of the season.

Oakland Athletics outfielder Matt Olson went 1-for-5 on Opening Day, which was also his birthday. Olson's one hit was apart of back-to-back homers with Khris Davis in the fifth against Garrett Richards. Olson hit 24 homers in only 59 games in 2017. Expect Olson to reach nearly 30 home runs in 2018, but it might come at the expense of batting average.