Elephant Rumblings: Another Mock Draft, How Would Baseball’s Golden Knight’s Fare?

A’s Coverage:

• Game #49: Mariners sink the A’s, 1-0...
• Hall: Oakland A’s place Khris Davis on DL, call up Daniel Gossett and Franklin Barreto...
• Mika Axisa has the A’s taking a high school 3B in his first mock draft...
• Craig: James Naile Making His Mark in Nashville...

MLB News:

• ESPN: White Sox’s Welington Castillo to get 80 games for drug violation...
• ESPN: Mookie Betts, J.D. Martinez balk at Home Run Derby...
• Baer: Marcell Ozuna scratched from Cardinals lineup because he overslept...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Oz: The inside story of Alex Rodriguez’s unprecedented transformation...
• Brisbee: The horrible aesthetics of baseball moving to an all-reliever strategy...
• Kram: If Mike Trout Didn’t Exist, Mookie Betts Would Be the Best Player in Baseball...
• BP: How would an expansion baseball team be built if its first-year goal was the World Series?
• Cut4: All of the things that have had less cultural relevance than Bartolo Colon...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1976 - Bert Campaneris of the Oakland Athletics collects five stolen bases in an 8 - 7 victory over the Cleveland Indians. The Oakland shortstop will steal 54 bases this season. As a team, the Athletics will pile up a record 341 stolen bases on the year.
• 1995 - Dennis Eckersley of the Oakland Athletics becomes the sixth pitcher in major league history with 300 saves in a 5 - 2 win over the Baltimore Orioles.

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• Look at this outfield defense!

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