Elephant Rumblings: A’s special advisor Lieppman wins lifetime achievement award

A’s Coverage:

• Tefertiller: 2019 Tony Gwynn Award - Keith Lieppman...
• Langs: A’s Lieppman wins lifetime achievement award...
• Gallegos: Diekman returns on 2-year deal, bolsters A’s ‘pen...
• Slusser: A’s re-sign reliever Jake Diekman... ($)
• Coffey: After declining his option earlier this offseason, the A’s and Jake Diekman reunite on a two-year deal... ($$$)
• Ravani: DA files criminal charges against former Oakland Coliseum authority chief in naming rights conflict... ($)

Best of AN:

• Hall: Oakland A’s re-sign reliever Jake Diekman...
• Iversen: What would a Marcus Semien contract extension cost?

MLB News:

• Rosenthal: Wheeler will be a $100 million man; the market for Bumgarner and Castellanos; more notes... ($$$)
• Nightengale: Ready to make a splash, White Sox going hard in pursuit of free agent Zack Wheeler...
• Heyman: Wheeler may sign before Winter Meetings...
• Castillo: Dodgers recently met with free agents Stephen Strasburg and Anthony Rendon...
• Nicholson-Smith: Blue Jays showing interest in former A’s righty Josh Lindblom...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Lars Anderson: To play ‘mortal,’ or not? My experience trying Adderall as a PED... ($$$)
• Meisel: The Pitching Whisperers - The inner workings of the Indians’ starting pitching development factory... ($$$)
• Edwards: Five Lessons From the Wild Non-Tender Deadline...
• Jaffe: JAWS and the 2020 Hall of Fame Ballot - Derek Jeter...
• Kagan: Physics in the Atlantic League – or Not...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1981 — Oakland signs free-agent OF-1B Joe Rudi, who hit just .180 in 49 games for the Red Sox last season, to a two-year contract.
• 2007 — The Florida Marlins and Detroit Tigers pull off a blockbuster deal. Florida sends 3B Miguel Cabrera (an All-Star in four of his five seasons) and two-time All-Star P Dontrelle Willis for prospects Cameron Maybin, Andrew Miller and Dallas Trahern. The Marlins also get Mike Rabelo, Eulogio De La Cruz and Burke Badenhop in the deal. Maybin and Miller had been Detroit’s first-round picks in 2005 and 2006 respectively.

Best of Twitter:

• Love to see this from the A’s and Matt Olson...

• At least it’s better than the Woo Sox...

• Another really deserving Hall of Fame candidate...