Elephant Rumblings: Flurry of moves at arbitration non-tender deadline

A’s Coverage:

• Gallegos: A’s trade Profar to Padres for C Allen, PTBNL...
• Gallegos: A’s non-tender Treinen, Buchter, Phegley...
• Slusser: A’s part with 2018 All-Star Blake Treinen, trade Jurickson Profar... ($)
• Lockard: A’s alter their catching and second base depth charts, non-tender Blake Treinen in a flurry of moves... ($$$)
• Lin: While they continue to reshape their roster, Padres take another risk by acquiring Jurickson Profar... ($$$)
• Haft: Here are the A’s top 10 games of the decade...

Best of AN:

• Hall: Oakland A’s non-tender Blake Treinen, Ryan Buchter, Josh Phegley...
• Hall: Oakland A’s trade Jurickson Profar to Padres...
• Hall: Oakland A’s agree to contract with T.J. McFarland, avoid arbitration

MLB News:

• MLB: Cesar Hernandez, Travis Shaw, Kevin Gausman among notable non-tenders...
• Rosenthal: The competition for Gerrit Cole and Stephen Strasburg intensifies as they meet with Yankees, other teams... ($$$)
• Sheldon: INF Mike Moustakas to Reds on 4-year, $64M deal...
• Frisaro: Marlins claim 1B Jesus Aguilar off waivers, deal for SS Jonathan Villar...
• Grant: Rangers meet with free agent 3B Anthony Rendon, Scott Boras...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Castrovince: Here are Winter Meetings FAQs to know...
• Clemens: Some Fun with Austin Hedges, a Baseball Extreme...
• Klugh: Justin Upton Has an Interesting Season Ahead of Him...
• Landers: Future Hall of Famer owns area school teachers, shows no mercy...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1933 — Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack sells catcher Mickey Cochrane to the Detroit Tigers for $100,000. Cochrane is named Detroit manager. Nine days later, Mack sells Lefty Grove, Max Bishop, and Rube Walberg to the Boston Red Sox for $125,000, and George Earnshaw goes to the Chicago White Sox for $20,000 and another player.
• 2002 — The Oakland Athletics send P Billy Koch and two minor leaguers to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for P Keith Foulke, C Mark Johnson, minor league P Joe Valentine, and cash considerations.

Best of Twitter:

• In case you’re still wondering why the A’s non-tendered Treinen...

• You hate to see it...

• The Reds are putting together a really fun team...