Elephant Rumblings: Cahill Signing Serves To Prevent Past Mistakes, A’s Consider Sea Levels

A’s Coverage:

• Nico: Inside The Mind Of Pitching Coach Scott Emerson: Part I...
• Calcaterra: The A’s are considering rising sea levels in planning their future ballpark...
• Lee: Phegley out with two broken fingers...
• Gallegos: Why top prospect A.J. Puk was among the A’s roster cuts...
• Moriarity: Talking Top Prospects with A’s Assistant GM Dan Feinstein...
• Slusser: A’s Chris Bassitt frustrated by unexpected role out of bullpen...

MLB News:

• Twins SS Jorge Polanco suspended 80 games...
• Jose Altuve finalizes 7-year, $163.5M deal with Astros...
• Minor-league baseball players may be exempt from federal labor laws soon...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Astros lock up Jose Altuve, but here’s why it’ll be much harder to keep Carlos Correa...
• Braden Halladay, 17, shows glimpses of his father in emotional outing vs. Blue Jays...
• The Braves will play the service-time game with Ronald Acuna Jr. for better or worse...
• Byron Buxton Is the Most Exciting Player in Baseball—but Can He Become a Star?

Today in Baseball History:

• 1977 - The Oakland Athletics sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Texas Rangers for $400,000. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, unlike his previous Oakland A’s decision (regarding Joe Rudi, Rollie Fingers and Vida Blue), does not void the deal as not being in the best interest of baseball.
• 2006 - When the Oakland Athletics open their season at home against the New York Yankees next month, the entire upper deck will be covered by green tarpaulins, making McAfee Coliseum the midget of the major leagues in terms of seating capacity.

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