Elephant Rumblings: A’s Lose Renato Nunez, Have Offered Matt Chapman Long-Term Extension

A’s Coverage:

• Anderson: Matt Chapman might be one of baseball’s best players and the A’s have already tried extending his contract...
• Hall: Oakland A’s lose Renato Nunez on waivers...
• Slusser: A’s free promotion highlights team’s struggle to draw paying fans...
• Gallegos: Stephen Piscotty’s recent hitting success led by adjustments at plate...
• Series Preview #6: Athletics vs White Sox - The Best Things in Life are Free...
• Game #16: Manaea Continues His Hot Start to 2018, A’s Win 2-1...
• Lockard: Shortstop Kevin Merrell moving fast with the Oakland Athletics...

MLB News:

• ESPN: Bartolo Colon, 44, takes perfect game into 8th inning vs. Astros...
• Daily Dish: Padres’ Dinelson Lamet will have Tommy John surgery...
• Rosenthal: Mets discussing Realmuto trade...
• Sanchez: Tribe, Twins set for MLB return to Puerto Rico...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Edwards: The Braves-Cubs game on Saturday should have probably never started. Then it produced one of history’s all-time comebacks....
• Library of Congress Digitizes Branch Rickey’s Uproarious, Revealing Scouting Reports...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1948 - The super station WGN-TV televises a major league baseball game for the first time. With Jack Brickhouse doing the play-by-play, the White Sox beat the Cubs, 4 - 1, in the first game of the Windy City Classic played at Wrigley Field.
• 1977 - Regulations force Oakland Athletics pitcher Vida Blue to discard his old, discolored lucky cap because it is no longer identical in color, trim and style to those of his teammates.
• 1984 - Dave Kingman of the Oakland Athletics hits three home runs, including a grand slam, in his first three at-bats. In total, Kingman drives in eight runs in a 9 - 6 victory over the Seattle Mariners.

Best of Twitter:

• More 40-man controversy...

• One of the good things about supporting a trade-happy team is you gain all these rooting interest from around the league...

• What a way to lose a homerun...

• There are ALWAYS better options than throwing the ball back, but this is one of the cooler ones I’ve seen...