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A’s Coverage:
- Matier: The Las Vegas A’s? Baseball commissioner tells Oakland it could happen... ($)
- Ross: What A’s must do to win AL West in 2020, avoid wild-card heartbreak...
- Rubin: Billy Beane, David Forst and Bob Melvin reflect on A’s early postseason exit... ($)
- Ostler: Fuse already lit to blow up another great A’s team... ($)
Best of AN:
- Frijoles: Manfred rips Oakland City Council over lawsuit...
- Nico: It’s Almost Time For “Zig-Zag” Season...
- Frijoles: Does the Oakland government want to lose the A’s?
MLB News:
- Bowman: Braves stun Cards in 9th to seize 2-1 NLDS lead...
- Gurnick: Dodgers poised to advance after bats come alive against Nats...
- Rosenthal: The MLBPA responds to teams’ talk of curbing spending; perils of non-traditional coaches; more notes... ($$$)
- Puma: Joe Girardi already doing his homework on Mets managerial opening...
- Somers: Buck Showalter Tells WFAN He Wants To Be Considered For Mets Job...
- Rosenthal: Joe Maddon to interview with Angels this week...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Buchanan: A cold case, not a closed case - The baseball obsessives correcting the record about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal... ($$$)
- Posnanski: The Nationals’ ‘gutsy’ intentional walk was an astonishing act... ($$$)
- Kram: All of the Exciting Baseball Is Happening in the National League—at Least for Now...
- Rowley: The Astros Remind the Rays and Us of Their, and Our, Mortality...
Today in Baseball History:
- 2001 — The San Francisco Giants’ Barry Bonds extends his major league record for home runs in season to 73 as he drives a 3-2 1st-inning knuckleball off Dodgers pitcher Dennis Springer over the right field fence. The blast also secures two more major league records for Bonds as he surpasses Babe Ruth - who slugged .847 in 1920 - with a .863 season slugging percentage and bests Mark McGwire, who in 1998 hit one HR every 7.27 at-bat by homering in every 6.52 at-bats.
Best of Twitter:
- How does anyone hit Gerrit Cole...
A close-up, slow-motion look at a four-seam fastball, knuckle curve, and slider from #Astros Gerrit Cole. #ALDS
— Michael Augustine (@AugustineMLB) October 6, 2019
-METRICS-
FF- 100 MPH, 2522 RPM, 1:15 spin tilt
KC- 87 MPH, 3012 RPM, 7:15 spin tilt
SL- 90.7 MPH, 2755 RPM, 10:15 spin tilt pic.twitter.com/SbmvjqZQKJ
- It’s been two years now, but we still aren’t talking enough about how great Max Muncy has become...
Max puts the @Dodgers on the board. #NLDS pic.twitter.com/tZAuhdOOC7
— MLB (@MLB) October 7, 2019
- Liam Hendriks’ 2019 season was even more special than it felt...
Single-Season Reliever fWAR Leaders since 2000:
— George (@YankeeNerdStats) October 6, 2019
2003 Éric Gagné (4.7)
2019 Liam Hendriks (3.8)!!!!
2004 Brad Lidge (3.7)
2004 Francisco Rodríguez (3.7)
2002 Éric Gagné (3.6)