Elephant Rumblings: A Deeper Dive into Manaea’s Dominance, Dustin Fowler Keeps Hitting

A’s Coverage:

• Posnanski: Here’s why Manaea’s dominance is so amazing...
• Jane Lee’s Inbox: Can A’s keep this up all season?
• Dustin Fowler had another huge day on Monday...
• Peterson: A’s Black Panther bobblehead is so hot, if it wasn’t free, you couldn’t afford one...
• Brown: Eric Byrnes played 245 holes of golf in 12 hours, setting a new world record...
• Slusser: Strong legs, strong game for A’s Jed Lowrie...

MLB News:

• ESPN: Dodgers’ Corey Seager will have Tommy John surgery and miss rest of season...
• ESPN: Josh Hader first to strike out at least 8 batters in save of less than three innings...
• Harvey: Yankees’ Sonny Gray will keep pitching to backup catcher Austin Romine...
• ESPN: Giants’ Joe Panik out 6 weeks after thumb surgery...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Jaffe: The Options for Replacing Corey Seager Aren’t Great...
• Anderson: The 2003 Detroit Tigers, one of the worst MLB teams ever, provide rebuilding teams lessons to learn from 15 years later...
• Paine: This Year’s MLB Tankfest Is Epic (And Maybe Pointless)...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1925 - The Philadelphia Athletics introduce another future Hall of Famer, 17-year-old catcher Jimmie Foxx, who pinch-hits a single in the 9 - 4 loss to the Washington Senators.
• 1991 - Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics surpasses Lou Brock as the major league career stolen base leader with his 939th steal in a 7 - 4 victory over the New York Yankees. Henderson breaks the record in the 4th inning, when he steals third base against catcher Matt Nokes.
• 1992 - Rickey Henderson garners his 1,000th stolen base in the 1st inning of the Athletics’ 7 - 6 victory over Detroit at Tiger Stadium.

Best of Twitter:

• Awesome start for Jed...

• Check out this thread; Baseball Savant has been majorly upgraded...

• The Astros may rue trading Hader...