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A’s Coverage:
- Slusser: A’s winter-meetings wrap-up: Slow week ends with infield acquisition... ($)
- Gallegos: A’s hoping conversations lead to action...
- Lockard: A’s add versatility with trade acquisition Buddy Reed and Rule 5 pick Vimael Machin... ($$$)
- Gallegos: A’s acquire lefty-hitting Machin from Phils...
- Longenhagen: The 2019 Rule 5 Draft Scouting Reports...
Best of AN:
- Hall: Oakland A’s rumors - Interest in Jed Lowrie...
- Hall: Oakland A’s acquire Buddy Reed from Padres...
- Hall: 2019 Rule 5 draft - Oakland A’s lose one prospect, gain another...
MLB News:
- Weaver: Rangers likely out on free agent 3B Josh Donaldson...
- Hoch: OF Brett Gardner back to Yanks on one-year, $12.5M deal...
- DiComo: RHP Rick Porcello, Mets in agreement on one-year deal worth $10M...
- Rosenthal: With market for third basemen heating up, multiple teams showing interest in Kyle Seager... ($$$)
- Rosenthal: Multiple suitors for Josh Donaldson; Kris Bryant not necessarily a fit for Braves; Josh Hader update; more notes... ($$$)
- Casella: Red Sox, LHP Martin Perez agree to one-year, $6M deal...
- Bronwe: Red Sox agree to deal with INF Jose Peraza worth $3M...
- Beck: Catcher Austin Romine, Tigers agree to one-year, $4M deal...
- Frisaro: Marlins agree to terms with RHP Yimi García on one-year contract...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Wolfe: Rendon Signing Shouldn’t Distract from the Angels’ Pitching Needs...
- Posnanski: What the Winter Meetings’ big contracts can tell us about baseball today... ($$$)
- Dodd: ‘Take this shot and see what happens’ - How to land a job in baseball at the Winter Meetings... ($$$)
- Tourtellotte: Why It’s Time to End the MLB Draft...
- Edwards: David Price’s Trade Value...
Today in Baseball History:
- 2001 — The Yankees sign free agent 1B Jason Giambi to a seven-year deal worth $120 million. The 2000 MVP and this year’s runner-up drove in 120 runs, hit 38 home runs, and had a .342 batting average for the wild card Oakland A’s this season.
- 2010 — The A’s sign oft-injured starting pitcher Brandon McCarthy to a one-year contract.
Best of Twitter:
- Today’s game is different...
Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith hit 28 home runs in his entire career.
— Foolish Baseball (@FoolishBB) December 13, 2019
Danny Santana, Yasmani Grandal, and Brett Gardner each hit 28 dingers in 2019.
- Long overdue...
An excellent change to MLB’s drug testing program: pic.twitter.com/b1AdweXKqU
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) December 12, 2019
- Couldn’t agree more — the A’s need to take advantage of their deep uniform history...
With all the new jerseys coming out, I say it’s time to bring these back!!! My favorite jersey of all time.
— Bryan (@SandLot408) December 12, 2019
The Billy Ball era whites with the Oakland across the chest... pic.twitter.com/o46HnacpCD
