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A’s Coverage:
- Melissa Lockard’s Winter/Fall Ball Update: Skye Bolt swinging a powerful bat...
- Hall: Oakland A’s expect payroll to rise in 2019...
- Ross: Billy Beane: Starting pitching is A’s top priority in MLB free agency...
MLB News:
- AP: Red Sox-Dodgers World Series averages 14.1 million viewers, down 25 percent...
- AP: Mike Moustakas, Joakim Soria officially join free-agent class...
- ESPN: Catcher J.T. Realmuto wants to part ways with Marlins, agent says...
- Mish: Cardinals’ Marcell Ozuna undergoes shoulder surgery...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Edwards: Those Disastrous World Series TV Ratings Explained...
- Evers: The Rocky Mount Pines, a Baseball Disaster...
Today in Baseball History:
- 2001 - For the first time since the Philadelphia Athletics’s Mule Haas hit a game-tying two-run home run in Game 5 of the 1929 World Series, a team comes from behind to tie a Fall Classic game in the 9th inning and goes on to win in extra innings. A two-out, two-run home run by Tino Martinez in the bottom of the 9th ties the game, and Derek Jeter hits a home run in the bottom of the 10th, giving the Yankees a 3 - 2 victory over Arizona to knot the World Series at two games apiece. Both homers come off Byung-Hyun Kim, who relieves Curt Schilling in the 8th inning. Mariano Rivera gets the win in relief for the Yankees. Following the 2010 season, a panel of experts at the MLB Network will vote this game the 12th greatest game of the past fifty years.
Best of Twitter:
- MLB.com today ranked allowing Catfish to leave for the Yankees as the A’s biggest free agent regret ever...
#OTD in 1974 Jim “Catfish” Hunter is named the American League Cy Young award winner after leading the AL with 25 wins and a 2.49 ERA.#RootedInOakland pic.twitter.com/pZrcP2u8Ry
— Oakland Athletics ⚾️ (@Athletics) October 30, 2018
- In the media today...
A's manager Bob Melvin on @MLBNetwork #HotStove said of CC Sabathia: "If he wants to come home for as year or two at the end of his career, I'm OK with that."
— Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) October 31, 2018
David Forst said on @MLBNetworkRadio that #Athletics aren't yet at the point where the possibility of a new stadium impacts long-term contract decisions on players. “Until I see a brick laid, it probably doesn’t change too much about how we operate,” Forst said. @MLB @MLBNetwork
— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) October 31, 2018
- Leaving this rather late, free agency beings in three days...
#SFGiants are not yet close to announcing a new president of baseball operations and/or general manager, sources say. Decision could wait until next week, when @MLB GM meetings begin. It remains possible they will hire two top execs. @MLBNetwork
— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) October 31, 2018
