Elephant Rumblings: Hatcher Gets Paid, Off-Season Moves That Should Have Happened Already

A’s Coverage:

• Oakland A’s 2018 Community Prospect List intro: Nominations before our first vote!
• 10 MLB Off-Season Moves That Should Have Happened Already...
• Five things the A’s must do before spring training begins...
• Stokke: The Athletics should look to extend Khris Davis...
• Sam Whiting reflects on 1968 in the Bay Area, including a few A’s memories...
• Oakland Athletics 2018 top-50 prospects: Will Toffey, 3B...

MLB News:

• Blue Jays, Josh Donaldson reach $23M deal for 2018 season...
• Yankees willing to pay ‘at least half’ of Jacoby Ellsbury’s salary...
• The Yankees gave Yu Darvish 48 hours to take $160M and he didn’t bite...
• MLB Hot Stove trade rumors: Diamondbacks pursuing Orioles’ Manny Machado...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• The worst free-agent signings in baseball the last 10 years...
• Mets give 50 Cent a chance to redeem himself after worst-ever first pitch...
• SBN made a Spotify playlist to represent this ‘slow, agonizing, empty, tumbleweed-filled ghost town of an MLB offseason’...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1884 - In a five-inning game played on ice skates in Brooklyn, Chicago White Stockings ace pitcher Larry Corcoran leads his team of mostly amateurs to a 41-12 win over a team composed of mostly professionals. Corcoran’s team was assembled by veteran sportswriter Henry Chadwick. In four days, the pros will beat Corcoran and another group of amateurs, 16-8.
• 1920 - A plan developed by Charles Ebbets many years ago is finally adopted: the annual drafting of players from the minor leagues will be done in inverse order of the final standings.
• 2009 - Rickey Henderson, the all-time major league leader in stolen bases, runs and leadoff home runs, is elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot; at the time of his retirement, Henderson also held the all-time walk record.

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