Elephant Rumblings: Alston Leaves For Twins, MLB Draft Retrospective, Gold Glove Finalists

A’s Coverage:

• MLB Draft first-round retrospect | The first 10 bats...
• A's seek bullpen coach after Alston leaves for Minnesota...

MLB News:

• Jeff Conine leaving Marlins after turning down reduced role...
• Braves denied permission to interview Royals GM Dayton Moore...
• Astros manager A.J. Hinch calls hotel altercation report 'nonsense'...
• With Joe Girardi out, here are the top candidates for next Yankees manager...
• Here are your 2017 Gold Glove finalists...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Mark Teixeira: Girardi was let go because Yankees need a 'better communicator'...
• Nick Saban defends friend Joe Girardi, expects him at Alabama-LSU game...
• The New (Old) Meaning of 20 Wins...
• Prospectus Feature: The Perception of Deception...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1962 - The Detroit Tigers begin a seventeen-game tour of Japan.
• 1989 - The World Series resumes after a ten-day delay because of the San Francisco earthquake. Oakland, behind two home runs by Dave Henderson, beats the Giants, 13-7, in Game 3.
• 1998 - President Bill Clinton signs a bill overturning part of baseball's 70-year-old antitrust exemption, putting baseball on par with other professional sports on labor matters. The new law overrides part of a 1922 United States Supreme Court ruling that exempted baseball from antitrust laws on grounds that it was not interstate commerce. That exemption deprived baseball players of protections enjoyed by other professional athletes and that the players' association blamed for contributing to baseball's eight work stoppages since 1972, including the disastrous 232-day strike in 1994-1995.

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