Elephant Rumblings: A’s Interested In Buying Coliseum Site, Veteran Pitchers Colon, Kazmir Released

A’s Coverage:

• FanRag: Which prospects will make the quickest MLB impact?
• Cut4: Matt Chapman accidentally stole Kevin Durant’s parking spot at the Coliseum...
• Lockard: Players who just missed Oakland Clubhouse’s Top-50 prospects list...
• Peterson: Shut out at Peralta College ballpark location, A’s now interested in buying Coliseum site...
• Calcaterra: Oakland not a baseball town just yet...
• SI: ¡Si, Se Puede! Oakland A’s to Host Cesar Chavez Day...

MLB News:

• ESPN: Albert Belle arrested on DUI, indecent exposure charges...
• Yahoo: Rangers release Bartolo Colon, but he’s not going away just yet...
• ESPN: Phillies sign top prospect Scott Kingery with options running through 2026...
• Yahoo: Braves release $16M former All-Star Scott Kazmir under bizarre circumstances...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Passan’s 10 Degrees: The upbeat treatment of Shohei Ohtani’s spring is a joke -- and entirely unnecessary...
• Fangraphs: Scott Kingery and the Problem of the Prisoner’s Dilemma...
• Lindbergh: Two Truths and a Lie: The Hidden Forces That Affect How Catchers Perform at the Plate...
• Cut4: Mickey Mantle’s famous 600-foot homer at USC may have been debunked...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1977 - The Oakland Athletics trade All-Star outfielder Claudell Washington to the Texas Rangers for two prospects and cash considerations.
• 1996 - Voters in San Francisco vote 2-to-1 in favor of a privately-funded stadium to replace Candlestick Park, the windy 36-year-old home of the Giants. The passage of the measure, the first step towards building the 42,000 seat bayside park, exempts the Giants from the waterside height restrictions. Plans call for the park to be ready for Opening Day, 2000.

Best of Twitter:

• No surprise here...

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