Elephant Rumblings: Former A’s infielder Healy joins Brewers

A’s Coverage:

• Kleinschmidt: Why A’s fans will love Buddy Reed, prospect acquired in Padres trade...
• Rosenbaum: These prospects are poised to break out...
• Jaffe: JAWS and the 2020 Hall of Fame Ballot - Jason Giambi...

MLB News:

• McCalvy: Brewers add infielder Ryon Healy on one-year deal...
• Rogers: Cardinals officially sign Korean lefty Kwang-Hyun Kim to two-year deal worth $8M...
• Matheson: Blue Jays, Japanese RHP Shun Yamaguchi agree to two-year contract...
• Dougherty: Nationals, RHP Daniel Hudson discussing deal, but hesitant to offer multiple years...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• McCullough: The fisherman and the winter goose - Inside Scott Boras’s $1 billion offseason... ($$$)
• Nesbitt: Hide and seek - The true story of how the Dodgers lost Roberto Clemente... ($$$)
• Klugh: Orioles Winter Fan Event About as Grim as It Sounds...
• Posnanski: The Baseball 100 - A project celebrating the greatest players in history... ($$$)

Today in Baseball History:

• 2004 — Two days after trading pitching ace Tim Hudson (17-8, 4.43 ERA) to the Braves, the A’s deal Mark Mulder to the Cardinals for starting pitcher Dan Haren, reliever Kiko Calero and minor league catching prospect Daric Barton. Five of the six players obtained by giving up two-thirds of the team’s “Big Three” are expected to be part of the opening day roster for Oakland.
• 2012 — Oakland signs SS Hiroyuki Nakajima from the Seibu Lions for two years.

Best of Twitter:

• Agreed — this is just strange...

• This is prior to any significant additions (and largely thanks to Liam Hendriks)...

• Knock on wood...