Elephant Rumblings: How The A’s Predicted Baseball’s Opener Trend

A’s Coverage:

• Game #124: A’s Lose Game, Take Series...
• Lindbergh: How the 1993 A’s Predicted Baseball’s Opener Trend...
• Lee: Joyce cleared to begin rehab assignment...
• Ostler: Seven random reasons I like the A’s to win it all...
• Slusser: A’s Ramon Laureano wants to prove Astros made a mistake trading him...

MLB News:

• ESPN: Yu Darvish’s rehab start ends after just one inning...
• AP: Justin Verlander earns his 200th career win as the Astros reclaim sole possession of 1st place...
• ESPN: Pirates, Cubs to meet in 2019 Little League Classic...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Passan: The unbelievably close National League and how 2018 may provide an all-time-great pennant race...
• Ring: How an Agent with Multiple Players Avoids Conflict of Interest...
• Provenzano: What happened to Charlie Blackmon?

Today in Baseball History:

• 1998 - At Shea Stadium, Cardinal first baseman Mark McGwire becomes the first player in major league history to hit 50 home runs in three consecutive seasons. Mac’s 7th-inning solo shot helps to defeat the Mets, 2 - 0.
• 2012 - The Athletics acquire shortstop Stephen Drew from the Diamondbacks in return for minor league infielder Sean Jamieson.

Best of Twitter:

• Kelley doing just about the right thing after a late ‘time’ call...

• Too many other things to focus on in the meantime, but...extend Jed or trust Barreto?

• One of the cooler clips of the weekend...