Elephant Rumblings: Athletic Lands on All-Underrated Team, Lower-Ranked Prospects Get Some Love

A’s Coverage:

• PECOTA projects the A’s to win 77...
• Fangraphs: Here’s Some Lower-Ranked Prospects We Love...
• Stars sans fanfare: 2018 All-Underrated Team...
• Oakland Athletics top-50 prospects: Sheldon Neuse, IF...
• A’s announce 50th anniversary gala...
• Comedian Spots Cuban Café Using Oakland A’s Logo...

MLB News:

• Barry Bonds will have his No. 25 jersey retired by San Francisco Giants in August...
• Players Association: MLB’s stagnant free-agent market threatens integrity of the game...
• J.D. Martinez is “fed up” with the Red Sox, could sit out the beginning of the season...
• Tim Lincecum To Throw For MLB Teams Next Week...
• Cuba beats Puerto Rico to lead after Caribbean Series 1st round...
• Carlos Beltran says he will not visit White House with Astros...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Do you know how your team got its name?
• Brisbee: The Mets are one of the only interesting baseball teams this offseason...
• What’s the path out of free agent purgatory?
• Flu-Like Symptoms: Why PECOTA Hates Your Favorite Team...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1994 - Former National Basketball Association star Michael Jordan signs a minor league contract with the Chicago White Sox. Jordan will report to spring training before being assigned to the Class-AA Birmingham Barons. After one season in the minors, Jordan will return to the NBA.

Best of Twitter:

• Can’t teach that...

• Like most years, there a number of former organizational players popping up in spring camps around the bigs...

• An interesting role for a manager fired for being a poor communicator!