Elephant Rumblings: Is Blake Treinen the Best Closer in Baseball?

A’s Coverage:

• Game #50: A’s bullpen game worked (again!)
• Peterson: A’s get stadium advice from man who championed Petco Park...
• Slusser: At 37, A’s Santiago Casilla finally has his green card...
• Ross: Making the case for Blake Treinen as baseball’s most valuable closer...

MLB News:

• ESPN: Red Sox DFA Hanley Ramirez, activate Dustin Pedroia...
• AP: White Sox lefty Carlos Rodon leaves rehab start after taking line drive off forehead...
• ESPN: Brewers send slumping Orlando Arcia to minors...
• Roscher: Cardinals pitcher makes mockery of rehab start, sets minor-league strikeout record...
• Lacques: Rays ‘bullpenning’ experiment continues: Relievers to start next three games vs. Orioles...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Passan: The uplifting story of how baseball saved Alex Postma and the infuriating story of how it sent him crashing again...
• Hart: An usher mistook ex-MLB player for an average beach-goer and hilarity ensued...
• Sawchik: Go See the Two-Seamer Before It’s Gone...
• Brisbee: Ranking every expansion team in MLB history to show how freaky the Golden Knights are...
• Timmers: The Minor League extra-innings rule change is a failure...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1951 - Willie Mays debuts for the New York Giants, striking out in the 1st inning against Bubba Church. Mays goes 0 for 5, but makes three good plays in the field.
• 1989 - The Montreal Expos, hoping to add the last piece to a playoff contender, trade Brian Holman, Gene Harris, and 6’ 10” Randy Johnson to the Seattle Mariners for Mark Langston. Mike Campbell will go to Montreal in July to complete the trade.

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