A’s Coverage:
- This Might as Well Have Been Written About the A’s: How the Pirates Are Forced to Value Players...
- Prospect Puk pleased with 2017 progress...
- Oakland Athletics 2018 top-50 prospects: Bobby Wahl, RHP...
MLB News:
- MLB prospect expert weighs in on what the Pirates got in the Andrew McCutchen trade...
- Curtis Granderson headed to Blue Jays on 1-year, $5 million deal...
- Pirates give closer Rivero an extension minutes after reacting to McCutchen trade...
- Cardinals’ Yadier Molina plans to retire at the end of his current contract...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Top 60 Remaining Trade Candidates...
- ‘Cutch trade shakes up market for Cain, outfielders...
- NYT: What Is Baseball’s Equivalent of the Vikings’ Miraculous Victory?
Today in Baseball History:
- 1964 - American League owners vote down Charlie Finley’s proposed move of the Kansas City Athletics to Louisville, Kentucky. The owners, who vote 9-1 against the proposal, also tell Finley to sign a lease with Kansas City or surrender the franchise.
- 1970 - Gold Glove outfielder Curt Flood files a lawsuit challenging the reserve clause, which binds major league players to teams perpetually. Flood had been traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the Philadelphia Phillies on October 7, 1969, but has refused to report to the Phillies. Flood contends that the reserve clause violates antitrust laws. He will lose the suit but the judge will suggest changes to the reserve system, opening the door for salary arbitration and free agency.
Best of Twitter:
- Good sign for Kap...
#Athletics prospect continuing to make progress in his return from Tommy John surgery. I grabbed him yesterday in my Rotowire Dynasty Invitational draft. https://t.co/u1X0vNOesn
— Melissa Lockard (@oakclubhouse) January 15, 2018
- A list of players who also might make sense in Oakland if the deal is right...
Sources say the #SFGiants rank the non-Lorenzo Cain free agent CF options as: 1) Jarrod Dyson; 2) Jon Jay; 3) Cameron Maybin. Dyson is valued for speed, defensive metrics and SB ability. Giants have expressed interest, but Dyson still talking to multiple clubs. Nothing imminent.
— Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) January 16, 2018
- The weather remembers...
Even the weather doesn't want to let go of #22.
— Scott Harbaugh (@WPXIScott) January 16, 2018
Good luck @TheCUTCH22 - one of a kind. #LetsGoCutch pic.twitter.com/pSjlrs2uP6