Elephant Rumblings: The Franklin Barreto center field experiment?

Prospect Watch:

• Daniel Mengden, Joey Wendle remind us they exist...
• Q&A with Oakland A’s minor league defensive coordinator Juan Navarrete...

ICYMI:

• Jed Lowrie is baseball’s most improved hitter...
• Could Franklin Barreto get a look in center field?
• Inbox: Will A's trade vets to boost rebuild?
• Wrist injury turned A’s Marcus Semien into ‘a better hitter’...
• Portland on short list to get a Major League Baseball team...
• Three teams to expand netting for 2018...
• The cost of extending the netting at every Major League Baseball stadium...
• Legal and liability issues relevant to foul balls and netting...
• Tim Lincecum is apparently hard to track down these days...
• Rangers release renditions of new stadium...
• Two Puerto Rican baseball stars trying to help Hurricane Maria relief efforts...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1911 - Cy Young, 44, beats the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 for his 511th and final Major League victory.
• 2003 - The Tigers set an AL record by losing their 118th game. The 1916 Philadelphia A’s (36-117) had held the record for nearly a century.
• 2013 - The A’s secure their second straight AL West title with an 11-7 victory over the Twins. Coco Crisp hits a three-run homer and Jed Lowrie and Daric Barton add solo shots.

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