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Prospect Watch:
- Documenting a dynasty: the Midland Rockhounds...
- Minor League Baseball 2017 Rawlings Gold Glove winners announced...
ICYMI:
- A’s tame Tigers, sweep series...
- Jon Paul Morosi wrote a nice feature on Matt Olson...
- Your daily “A’s picked a bad ballpark site” update...
- Passan: The shame of MLB's morally repugnant anti-netting excuses...
- Raul Mondesi sentenced to eight years in prison on corruption charges in Dominican Republic...
- Angels poised to save $750,000 in bonuses after convenient pitching decisions...
- The challenges of planning for the future in today’s homerun environment...
- Sawchik: Let’s improve the Wild-Card round...
- Understanding the ‘R’ in WAR...
- Hanley Ramirez is using Tom Brady’s TB12 Method workout now...
- A long-form article that details the mood inside the Dodgers clubhouse at both ends of their extreme season...
- Joe Mauer’s complicated Hall of Fame candidacy...
- Another piece on the changing nature of baseball stats: the vanishing ERA qualifier...
- Welcome to the dullest September of baseball in recent memory...
- The sad decline of Matt Harvey...
- Paine: The Minnesota Twins are not supposed to be here...
Today in Baseball History:
- 1922 - The AL reinstates the MVP award, last given in 1914. The NL will follow suit two years later.
- 1970 - Oakland's Vida Blue pitches a no-hitter in his eighth Major League start, beating Minnesota 6-0.
- Jimmie Foxx hits his 54th homerun to lead the A’s to an 8-4 win over the visiting Yankees.
Best of Twitter:
- An interesting opportunity...
A's fans can try to hit homers for free season tickets tomorrow. Huh. pic.twitter.com/HFQRfCZunE
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) September 20, 2017
- The A’s are moving their offices to an old proposed stadium site...
A's announced earlier this afternoon they are shifting front office headquarters from Coliseum to space in Jack London Square.
— Joe Stiglich (@JoeStiglichNBCS) September 20, 2017
The office move to JL Square had been in works for a while. A's note in press release it keeps them close to both Coliseum & Peralta site.
— Joe Stiglich (@JoeStiglichNBCS) September 20, 2017
- Finally, a note on Chris Sale’s dominance...
191 of Chris Sale’s 300 strikeouts in 2017 have come on the road.
— MLB Stat of the Day (@MLBStatoftheDay) September 21, 2017
That’s the most by ANY pitcher since at least 1913. pic.twitter.com/W29IoiOgYW
