Elephant Rumblings: Dustin Fowler Hopes To Leave Unlucky Club

A’s Coverage:

• NYT: Oakland’s Dustin Fowler Hopes to Leave an Unlucky Club of 2...
• Killion: A’s: New hope tempered by old realities...
• A’s getting used to limits on mound visits...
• A’s prospect Neuse letting bat do talking...
• Oakland Athletics 2018 top-50 prospects: Jorge Mateo, SS...
• The issue holding Jharel Cotton back in starting rotation battle...
• A’s bullpen hopeful Lou Trivino gets adrenaline rush early in spring...

MLB News:

• Tigers’ Travis Wood suffers torn ACL, medial meniscus in left knee...
• 538 X-Rayed Some Baseballs - Here’s What They Found...
• ‘The best two-way player I’ve ever seen’: First impressions of Shohei Ohtani...
• Heyman: Grievance punctuates weak winter...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Everybody loves Bartolo Colon, but can he actually keep pitching?
• The Marlins’ home run sculpture isn’t moving, so Derek Jeter better learn to live with it...
• A Possible Legal Argument Against Service-Time Manipulation...
• Connecting Diaspora and Baseball Through Tim Lincecum...
• What If There Were an XFL-Style League, but for Baseball?

Today in Baseball History:

• 2005 - Thirty-two years after his death, Jackie Robinson receives the Congressional Gold Medal in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, the highest honor Congress can bestow. The medal is accepted by Rachel Robinson, his widow. Baseball is represented in a way by former Texas Rangers executive George W. Bush. Robinson joins Roberto Clemente, Joe Louis and Jesse Owens as the only athletes among about 300 Gold Medal recipients. Following the ceremony, the Boston Red Sox are honored at the White House for winning the 2004 World Series.

Best of Twitter:

• Melvin’s reaction to Trivino...

• An update on Chapman...

• Still early, but this is always a good sign...