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A’s Coverage:
- Kroichick: A’s pitcher Aaron Brooks nails down starting job in Bay Bridge Series win...
- Kroichick: A’s will mix and match with catchers Josh Phegley and Nick Hundley...
- Gallegos: A’s top prospect Beck gets first big league taste in Bay Bridge Series...
- Gallegos: Q&A - A’s pitcher Fernando Rodney takes us under his crooked cap...
- Baseball America Staff: Scouting 11 Pitchers Who Stood Out This Spring... ($)
- Oakland A’s 2019 Community Prospect List #29: Jordan Diaz and low-minors lotto tickets...
MLB News:
- Skiver and Anderson: Mets ace Jacob deGrom agrees to five-year, $137.5 million contract extension...
- Miles: Kyle Hendricks, Cubs agree to $55.5 million contract extension...
- AP: With new deal, Eloy Jimenez makes White Sox opening roster...
- Acee: Top prospect Fernando Tatis Jr. to open season on Padres’ big league roster...
- MLB: Giants president/CEO Larry Baer suspended through July 1...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- The Athletic Staff: The 2019 MLB Poll - Who’s the funniest, the best, the most overrated? How tense are labor relations? And who’s afraid of Aaron Judge? ($)
- Rosenthal: Understanding the thinking behind baseball’s recent extensions... ($)
- Clemson: Anthony Rendon and Alex Bregman Are the Same, and Also Different...
- Edwards: 2019 Positional Power Rankings: Bullpen (No. 1-15)...
- Bowden: The 2019 American League season preview and predictions... ($)
Today in Baseball History:
- 1978 - Oakland Athletics owner Charley Finley cancels the deal that would have sent the team to Denver, Colorado, under the sponsorship of oil magnate Marvin Davis. Objecting to some of the details, Finley decides to call off negotiations.
Best of Twitter:
- In which we learn that Matt Chapman has better hand-eye coordination than Stephen Piscotty...
When the @Mariners & @Athletics hit Japan, a few guys took part in some serious physical competition.
— Cut4 (@Cut4) March 26, 2019
They also played baseball after... pic.twitter.com/MV7TzAblOB
- Gabe Kapler is certainly unique...
A follow up email sent out by the @Phillies organization clarifies that journalists will have media credentials revoked if "tweeting," not texting, while the manager and players speak. #rtnda @Poynter @espn
— Dan Patrick (@6abcDan) March 26, 2019
- Some explanation for Lou Trivino’s filthy changeup from Monday night...
The changeup you saw from Trivino last night was a Vulcan changeup — basically with a splitter grip. He hasn’t thrown it in a year and half. If it continues to have that type of depth to go with his cutter and four-seamer? Man.
— Julian McWilliams (@JulianMack105) March 26, 2019
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