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Prospect Watch:
- Farm Report: Puk shines again for Midland. Austin Beck was pretty good too...
- Looking ahead at your 2018 Oakland A’s...
ICYMI:
- The A’s beat the Astros 3-2 in a strange one...
- Meet Hannah, a U.K.-based A’s fan who traveled 4,000 miles to watch her beloved Green and Gold play in Houston...
- Pirates beat Cardinals in Little League Classic, but the fans were the real winners...
- Tommy Pham was another winner. If you weren’t a fan of him before, I guarantee you will be going forward...
- The Umpires Union ended their white-wristband protest yesterday. Jeff Passan wasn’t impressed with the protest to begin with...
- The Salem-Keizer Volcanoes are playing a 9:35 AM game today that has a dual-purpose of being an eclipse watch party...
- After going to painstaking efforts to craft a uniform identity, the Braves are now planning to change their AAA team’s name to something like the Buttons, the Big Mouths, or the Gobblers...
- Astros fire eight scouts, will rely more on Statcast and video...
- Can scouts and Statcast coexist?
Today in Baseball History:
- 1945 - The Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Athletics played a 24-inning marathon that ended in a 1-1 tie. Les Mueller pitched 19.2 innings for the Tigers.
- 1975 - Mets catcher Joe Torre grounds into four double plays. Felix Millian had four singles but never made it to second base on account of Torre’s profligacy.
Best of Twitter:
- Hard to think how a catch could be any better...
The craziest catch in Little League World Series HISTORY!!! pic.twitter.com/cPRSasy1rM
— MLB Memes (@MLBMeme) August 20, 2017
- From the Crash Davis school of media interviews...
Boog Powell says he loves to hit leadoff. "That's my spot," he says. At big league level, he is happy to hit anywhere, he's quick to say.
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) August 20, 2017
- A piece of history yesterday. This might actually be an occasion where the RBI stat is somewhat telling!
According to @dakern74, today is first time in Oakland history that #Athletics scored 3 or more runs in a game with no RBI.
— Joe Stiglich (@JoeStiglichNBCS) August 20, 2017
- Speaking of (questionable) stats, that would be Alex Colome of the Rays...
Your MLB saves leader has 36 saves for a 61-65 team
— Jason Collette (@jasoncollette) August 20, 2017
- A piece of history for a former A’s catcher...
Josh Donaldson today 1st player who began MLB career as C to make start at SS since Ron Brand in 1971. @STATS_MLB
— Len Kasper (@LenKasper) August 20, 2017
- He’s also won in every ballpark save two. Can you name them? Hint: one is known as the Friendly Confines; the other is the subject of a bitter suit between its respective municipality and the MLB...
#BigSexy gets the victory.
— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) August 20, 2017
He’s now beaten all 30 MLB teams! #TwinsWin #MNTwins pic.twitter.com/oWgmvXBKJi
