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A’s Coverage:
- Rubin: What A’s winter ball performances can tell us about the second base race... ($)
- Kleinschmidt: Why A’s Billy Beane doesn’t like proposed three-batter minimum rule...
- Coffey: ‘The hairs versus the squares’ - How the 1972 A’s won it all while breaking barriers with their upper lips... ($$$)
MLB News:
- Adler: Former A’s INF Eric Sogard, Brewers agree to one-year deal worth $4.5M...
- Feinsand: Boras on markets for Ryu, Keuchel, Castellanos...
- Heyman: RHP Felix Hernandez receiving interest from teams, plans to pitch in 2020...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Posnanski: The Baseball 100 - No. 100, Ichiro Suzuki... ($$$)
- Clemens: The Three Batter Minimum Rule Barely Matters...
- Longenhagen: Notes on Yoshi Tsutsugo, Kwang-Hyun Kim, and the Week’s Other NPB/KBO Signees...
- Adler: Gerrit Cole wanted to honor his childhood dream. He did just that. ‘I’m here. I’ve always been here.’... ($$$)
- Rosenthal: How pitch-tipping contributed to Wade Miley’s struggles at the end of the season... ($$$)
Today in Baseball History:
- 2010 — Kansas City trades ace pitcher Zack Greinke, the 2009 American League Cy Young Award winner, and SS Yuniesky Betancourt to the Milwaukee Brewers in return for a package of young players, headed by SS Alcides Escobar. P Jake Odorizzi, OF Lorenzo Cain and P Jeremy Jeffress complete the Royals’ haul, as Milwaukee outbids the Yankees and the Rangers to obtain Greinke.
Best of Twitter:
- This is pretty important...
Previously unreported detail in Gerrit Cole’s contract: If he opts out after fifth year, NYY may void opt-out and extend contract one more year for $36M. That would increase value of deal to 10 years, $360M.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) December 18, 2019
- And yet the former has much stronger Hall of Fame support than the latter...
If Omar Vizquel returned to baseball and hit 400 straight home runs, his career OPS would still be 12 pts worse than Scott Rolen’s.
— Jeremy Frank (@MLBRandomStats) December 19, 2019
- This is promising...
Infielder Vimael Machin, acquired by #Athletics in the Rule-5 draft, has been on fire in Puerto Rico this winter, slashing .379/.423/.545 with 5 doubles & 3 triples in 66 ABs. And the left-handed hitter is slashing .465/.511/.628 vs. righties.
— Athletics Farm (@AthleticsFarm) December 18, 2019
