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A’s Coverage:
- AN: Billy Beane named first-ever MLB Executive of the Year...
- Slusser: Melvin named as top-three finalist for AL Manager of the Year...
- A’s entire coaching staff will return for 2019...
- McWilliams: Building of a bullpen...
- McWilliams: Chapman and Olson are the new gold standards...
- Ross: Exploring the markets for Lowrie, Lucroy...
MLB News:
- Schulman: Giants hire ex-A’s exec Farhan Zaidi as President of Baseball Ops...
- Sherman: Brian Cashman has given up on Sonny Gray...
- Rome: Astros’ SP Lance McCullers has Tommy John surgery, out for 2019...
- Johns and Guardado: Jerry Dipoto dispels talk of teardown for Mariners...
- Sherman: Yankees re-sign C.C. Sabathia for 1 year, $8 million...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Sherman: Nationals’ $300M offer to Bryce Harper was a PR ploy...
- Brisbee: Yes, bad teams should sign Harper and Machado...
- Brisbee: 6 players with a second chance for the Hall of Fame...
- Rome: Alex Bregman obsessed in pursuit of baseball perfection...
- Sullivan (poll): How did you feel about the 2018 season?
- Sullivan: The worst called strike of the second half...
Today in Baseball History:
- 1964: The National League approves the move of the Milwaukee Braves to Atlanta but orders them to stay in Milwaukee for the 1965 season, in spite of poor attendance over the last two years. The Braves will eventually move to Atlanta in 1966.
- 1973: New Jersey becomes the first state which allows girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
- 2005: A’s reliever Huston Street named AL Rookie of the Year. Ryan Howard wins the NL award.
- 2017: Former two-time Cy Young Award winner Roy Halladay dies when the private plane he pilots crashes into the Gulf of Mexico, 10 miles west of St. Petersburg, FL.
Best of Twitter:
I read this as admission that the A’s were always the better front office.
As @BNightengale speculated, Billy Owens, who works under Beane/Forst in Oakland, is a logical candidate to become Zaidi's GM. They're obviously well-connected. We'll see.
— Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) November 7, 2018
Get paid, Edwin!
Free agent RHP Edwin Jackson has drawn interest from several teams, including the A’s, Yankees, Tigers, Reds, and Blue Jays, according to a source
— Ben Ross (@BenRossSports) November 7, 2018
This gets awkward for a minute ...
"That might be the first nice thing Matt's ever said to me."
— Oakland Athletics ⚾️ (@Athletics) November 5, 2018
Check out @mattchap6 and @mattolson21's interview from last night's Rawlings Gold Glove Award Show and vote for one of them to win the Platinum Glove Award at https://t.co/nUqgCLf4Av #RootedInOakland pic.twitter.com/qMSDu0H40i
It’s way tougher to pitch well all the way up in that ivory tower.
Cashman said that he believes whoever acquires Sonny Gray will get the pitcher he was in Oakland.
— Bryan Hoch (@BryanHoch) November 5, 2018
"The plan is to move him, because I don't want to keep going through the process of something that won't work here, even though it will work somewhere else."
Nuclear hot take from a dude we all love. (Note: The other finalists were Trout and Ramirez. Leave it to a career 1B/DH to completely ignore the value of defense.)
Man why can’t we let the players get what they deserve in baseball? JD Martinez not in the final three of league MVP voting is a disgrace to the game!! As far as I’m concerned he deserves the award along with his teammate Mookie Betts! 330avg/130 rbis/111 runs/43 Hrs #W.S.Champs
— Frank Thomas (@TheBigHurt_35) November 6, 2018
Petit getting a preview of Opening Day next March.
Yusmeiro Petit's out in Japan for the #JapanAllStarSeries https://t.co/McnLZfxTbr
— Oakland Athletics ⚾️ (@Athletics) November 7, 2018
