Elephant Rumblings: A’s Complete Trade with Bucs, Flurry of Weekend Trades Around Baseball

A’s Coverage:

• Thornburg: A’s send Ramos to Bucs as player to be named...
• Ross: A’s starting pitching solutions must be found in free agency, and soon...
• Hall: A’s non-tender Mike Fiers, Kendall Graveman and Cory Gearrin...
• Ross: A’s free agent signing anniversary — Outfielder Matt Stairs in 1995...

MLB News:

• Adams: Seibu Lions To Post Yusei Kikuchi Tomorrow...
• AP: One unidentified MLB player tests positive for banned stimulant...
• AP: Brewers don’t offer 2B Jonathan Schoop contract after trade falls flat...
• AP: Outfielder Billy Hamilton non-tendered by Reds, becomes free agent...
• AP: Indians trade catcher Yan Gomes to Nationals...
• Rogers: Cubs tender contract to Addison Russell amid 40-game domestic violence ban...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Epstein: Correct (and incorrect) analysis of the Mets’ trade for Robinson Canó...
• BP: Introducing a new batting metric, DRC+...
• Pinstripe Alley: Lack of competition may be good for the Yankees, but it’s bad for baseball...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1989 - The Milwaukee Brewers sign free agent DH Dave Parker, who hit 22 home runs and 97 RBI for the 1989 World Champions Oakland Athletics. Oakland receives Milwaukee’s first round pick in the 1990 amateur draft in compensation, and will use it to take pitcher Todd Van Poppel, as well as a compensation pick with which they will select another pitcher, Kirk Dressendorfer. Parker will hit 21 home runs with 92 RBI for Milwaukee next season.
• 2002 - The Oakland Athletics send P Billy Koch and two minor leaguers to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for P Keith Foulke, C Mark Johnson, minor league P Joe Valentine, and cash considerations.

Best of Twitter:

• Don’t jinx it!

• The section on Kile in Buzz Bissinger’s book Three Nights in August is tear jerking...

• A nice extension for Dave...

• More on the Mets’ haul...