Elephant Rumblings: A’s Trade For Dodgers’ Pitcher, Nick Allen Prospect Spotlight

A’s Coverage:

• Game #25: Graveman Solid, But A’s Drop Series Finale to Rangers, 4-2...
• Hall: Oakland A’s acquire Wilmer Font from Dodgers...
• Jeff Sullivan wrote an interesting piece about Wilmer Font over the winter...
• Baseball Jen: Remembering Tony Phillips, MLB’s first true super-utility player...
• 2080 Baseball: Nick Allen Prospect Spotlight...

MLB News:

• ESPN: Trevor Richards, former substitute teacher, brewery employee, strikes out 10, out-pitches Clayton Kershaw...
• Perry: Brewers lose slugger Eric Thames to torn thumb ligament; expected to miss ‘significant’ portion of 2018...
• Cwik: MLB pitcher making unlikely comeback after three Tommy John surgeries...
• AP: Eugenio Suarez returning from DL after broken thumb...
• Calcaterra: Andrew Miller leaves game with a bum hamstring...
• Karraker: Orioles’ Tim Beckham likely out 6-7 weeks...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Ortiz: ‘You only get one career’: Giants’ Mac Williamson breaks out after big-time changes...
• Cut4: How Hayden Hurst went from a Minor League flameout to an early NFL Draft pick...
• Sullivan: Pick the Catcher (Kurt Suzuki is Way Better Than Most People Realize)...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1914 - Three players hit their first career homer for the Kansas City Packers of the Federal League: Duke Kenworthy, Art Kruger and John Potts all go deep in a feat that will not be matched until June 24, 2017, by the Oakland A’s (Matt Olson, Jaycob Brugman, Frankin Barreto.) The Packers defeat the Chicago Chi-Feds, 12 - 4 at Weeghman Park.
• 1961 - Roger Maris hits his first home run of 1961 (off Paul Foytack) and Mickey Mantle adds home runs from both sides of the plate (for the eighth time) as New York wins 13-10 at Tiger Stadium.

Best of Twitter:

• An adjustment happening before our very eyes?

• Keep an eye on this...

• Don’t short the man...