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A’s Coverage:
- Slusser: Houston sweeps A’s when Blake Treinen falters in ninth...
- McWilliams: Minute Maid Park is where it began for Ramón Laureano and also where he learned to survive... ($)
- Slusser: Switch-hitting Robbie Grossman working to get going...
- Gallegos: A’s give Jurickson Profar day off as he seeks to end bad slump...
- Simon: Rodney closing in on ... Cy Young?
- Athletics Farm: A’s release righty Parker Bridwell...
Best of AN:
- Baker-Gillman: Game #13 - Hope and Misery...
- Nico: Jurickson Profar - Patience, Grasshopper...
- Fatrolf’s Sunday Sketches: Laureano Edition...
MLB News:
- Rosenthal: Free agent lefty Dallas Keuchel’s asking price has dropped significantly...
- Mish: Orioles sign former A’s righty Dan Straily...
- Grant: Edinson Volquez considering retirement due to elbow injury...
- Rogers: Epstein - Sorry to Cubs fans; 1-6 start ‘on me’...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Stark: The Useless Info Dept., What Just Happened Edition... ($)
- Fletcher: Angels’ Andrew Heaney opens up about mental, emotional toll of injuries...
- Smith: David Price - It’s a ‘joke’ Boston Red Sox star Mookie Betts is not in a commercial; ‘He could be the face of baseball. MLB just needs to step up’...
- Arthur: Moonshot - The Baseball Is Juiced (Again)...
- Ring: Can Umpires Really Do Anything They Want?
Today in Baseball History:
- 1934 - At Shibe Park, 15,000 fans witness the first legal baseball game between major league teams played on a Sunday in the city of Philadelphia. In a hometown exhibition game, the Phillies defeat the Athletics, 8 - 1.
- 1946 - Jim (Catfish) Hunter is born in Hertford, North Carolina. The pitching ace of three World Series champions in Oakland in the 1970s and a member of two other Championship-winners with the New York Yankees, Hunter will make his major league debut in 1965 and will win election to the Hall of Fame in 1987.
Best of Twitter:
- Mike Trout: Still the best player alive...
That is a career-high in home runs, a career-high in walks, and a career-low in strikeouts in Trout's first 42 PA to begin a season. Seriously.
— Devan Fink (@DevanFink) April 7, 2019
- Chris Davis, on the other hand, isn’t...
Chris Davis now up to 0-44 dating to last season.
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) April 7, 2019
Longest 0-fer by a position player in MLB history is 0-46 by Eugenio Velez in 2010-11.
- While I might disagree with number one, the A’s farm is well-represented on this list...
TOP 100 MINOR LEAGUE NAMES THREAD
— Cespedes Family BBQ (@CespedesBBQ) April 5, 2019
The @MiLB season is back, which means it is time for my annual celebration of the best names populating the many, many Minor League rosters across our great sport, counting down from 100 to 1. Here we go...
