Elephant Rumblings: Lowrie is A’s Anchor, Austin Jackson Signs

A’s Coverage:

• Steady Lowrie anchors keystone bag for A’s...
• Oakland Athletics 2018 top-50 prospects: Miguel Romero, RHP...

MLB News:

• Giants, Austin Jackson agree to two-year, $6 million deal...
• Braves’ Ronald Acuna claims top spot on Baseball America’s top 100 prospects list...
• A-Rod gets unprecedented deal to join ESPN’s ‘Sunday Night Baseball’...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Lance Lynn or Alex Cobb — who’s better with same financial demands?
• Baseball Therapy: One Simple Anti-Tanking Solution...
• Why has there been no free agent talk about Melky Cabrera?
• The Slow Market Has Developed Quickly...
• The Threat of a Strike Might Not Help the MLBPA...
• The Physics of RoboUmp...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1928 - Alfonso (Chico) Carrasquel is born in Caracas, Venezuela. Carrasquel, the first in a great line of Venezuelan shortstops that includes Luis Aparicio, Dave Concepción, Ozzie Guillen and Omar Vizquel, will become the first Hispanic to appear in an All-Star Game, in 1951, at Briggs Stadium.

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