A’s Coverage:
- Hall: Oakland A’s second round of cuts leaves spring roster at 45...
- invisibleinkwell: Spring 2019 trade value estimates of Oakland A’s prospects...
- Nico: Luzardo Provides A Fascinating Spring Conundrum...
- Longenhagen and McDaniel: Top 30 Prospects: Oakland Athletics...
- Slusser: ‘Meditation station’ may benefit A’s players this spring...
- McWilliams: Two weeks before the A’s head to Japan, what we do and don’t know about the roster... ($)
- Big Rob 510: Athletics Nation podcast - Donny Baarns talks rotation, minors, and more!
- Lockard: A’s prospect Gus Varland has gone from obscurity to legitimate big-league prospect in a blink of an eye... ($)
- Lockard: Six under-the-radar A’s and Giants position-player prospects to watch in 2019... ($)
- Slusser: Versatile A’s catcher Chris Herrmann learned from Kurt Suzuki...
- Slusser: Jonathan Lucroy moves on to Angels after ‘great time’ with A’s...
- Oakland A’s 2019 Community Prospect List #21: Marcos Brito is advanced beyond his years...
MLB News:
- Rosenthal: Trout’s value? Far more than Harper or Machado; Nats pondering next move; A’s not giving up on Murray... ($)
- Schulman: Giants’ officials hold talks on Larry Baer situation...
- Law: Nationals’ talks with Craig Kimbrel heating up...
- McCalvy: Mets reliever Bobby Wahl has torn ACL...
- Miller: Rangers acquire OF Zack Granite from Twins...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Bowden: Offseason grades for the AL West... ($)
- Shea: Players’ union sees ‘value’ with universal DH, Giants’ Bumgarner weighs in...
- Edwards: Did Manny Machado Get A Better Contract Than Bryce Harper?
- Castrovince: 7 overreactions from Spring Training...
Today in Baseball History:
- 1972 - The Texas Rangers, formerly the Washington Senators, trade former two-time Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain to the Oakland Athletics for two minor league pitchers. McLain, who lost a league-leading 22 games pitching for the Senators in 1971, will last only five starts in Oakland before being traded to the Atlanta Braves for Orlando Cepeda.
- 1994 - Michael Jordan comes to bat for the first time in a Chicago White Sox uniform. Playing in a spring training game, Jordan taps back to Texas Rangers pitcher Darren Oliver, who tags out the former National Basketball Association star. Jordan will eventually give up baseball after one season in the minor leagues and return to the NBA.
Best of Twitter:
- Bryce Harper did an oops...
"We want to bring a title back to DC"
— Kent (@RealKentMurphy) March 2, 2019
-Bryce Harper pic.twitter.com/WJN6R7WDER
- There is nothing this man can’t do...
Mike Trout said he can hit a golf ball "close to 400." He did not specify yards, furlongs, miles, etc. Use your imagination.
— J.P. Hoornstra (@jphoornstra) March 3, 2019
- I hope Tanner Anderson carves out a successful career with Oakland just so we can watch his delivery on a regular basis...
Tanner Anderson vs. John Cleese (Ministry of Silly Walks), Leg Lift/Mechanics.
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) March 4, 2019
h/t @sung_minkim https://t.co/AjCXCTlEas pic.twitter.com/5KfdwSIaQU