Elephant Rumblings: A’s Winter Meeting Shopping List, Superbowl QB Tells Kyler to Pick Baseball

A’s Coverage:

• Lee: A’s may address rotation, catcher at Meetings...
• AN: A’s prospect Kyler Murray wins football’s Heisman Trophy
• Becker: A’s Heisman winner Kyler Murray sorry for anti-gay tweets...
• Slusser: A’s head to winter meetings in need of starters — lots of them...
• Slusser: Will Oakland A’s be on the radio next season? Signals are fuzzy...
• AN: A’s Triple-A affiliate rebrands as Las Vegas Aviators
• Hall: Jed Lowrie is the key to the A’s offseason
• Thanawalla: Joe Theismann tells 2018 Heisman winner Kyler Murray to pick baseball...

MLB News:

• AP: Harold Baines, Lee Smith elected to Baseball Hall of Fame...
• ESPN: Mike Napoli, who made three trips to World Series, announces retirement...
• AP: Former Cubs, Red Sox hitting coach Chili Davis hired by Mets...
• Snyder: Nationals sound like they’ve moved on from Bryce Harper; Mark Lerner calls $300M offer ‘best we can do’...
• Reports: Former MLB players Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo killed in car crash in Venezuela...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Cheng: How Many Useful Dimensions of Data Does Trackman Report?
• Stephen: The Baseball Hall of Fame will induct a DH in 2019, just like we all expected...
• Kram: Why Trading for Top Prospects Is Less of a Win Than MLB Teams Seem to Think...
• Sawchik: The Cardinals And Diamondbacks Are Now On Very Different Paths...

Today in Baseball History:

• 2013 - Things heat up on the second day of the Winter Meetings at Lake Buena Vista, FL. In a three-team deal, the Angels send slugger Mark Trumbo to the Diamondbacks and receive Ps Tyler Skaggs and Hector Santiago, who comes over from the White Sox; in turn, the Pale Hose receive young OF Adam Eaton from the D-Backs. In another trade, the Athletics send veteran P Brett Anderson to Colorado for young hurlers Drew Pomeranz and Chris Jensen.
• 2017 - The Veterans Committee of the Hall of Fame, looking at players from the “Modern Era” fropm 1970 to 1987, elects long -time Detroit Tigers teammates Jack Morris and Alan Trammell. They receive 14 and 13 of 16 votes respectively and will be inducted into Cooperstown in 2018 along with anyone elected via the BBWAA ballot. Ted Simmons misses election by one vote.

Best of Twitter:

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