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A’s Coverage:
- Gallegos: Olson’s 450-foot jack sparks Athletics’ offense...
- Slusser: Big blast by Olson, ‘piggybacking’ help A’s beat Royals... ($)
- Brisbee: A weeknight A’s game is the best sports experience in the Bay Area (for now)... ($$$)
- Slusser: A’s Ramón Laureano makes no excuse for costly misplay... ($)
- Thompson: How Marcus Semien cracked the WAR code and set himself up for a big payday... ($$$)
- Lockard: A’s minor-league season in review - Successful rehabs and the Las Vegas offense were the stories of the season... ($$$)
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MLB News:
- Santelli: Pirates’ All-Star Closer Felipe Vázquez Facing Several Felony Charges, Including Sexual Assault Of Teen He Met At PNC Park...
- Mayo: Prospects set to shine on AFL Opening Day...
- Cotillo: Red Sox likely to shut David Price down for season with wrist issue...
- Acee: Padres shut down rookie Chris Paddack (workload)...
- Curry: Yankees reliever Dellin Betances suffers partial tear of left Achilles’ tendon...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Rosenthal: Why Christian Yelich should still be considered for NL MVP (while Mike Trout is an AL shoo-in)... ($$$)
- Dodd: ‘One of the biggest myths’ - The history of living and dying by the home run... ($$$)
- Fink: Kolby Allard Has Been Quite the Find for the Rangers...
- Sarris: Investigating the weirdest pitches of the year and trying to define the value of strange... ($$$)
- Kram: The Reds Are Refining the Optimal Approach for a Two-Way Player...
Today in Baseball History:
- 1962 — Charlie Finley is denied permission to move the Athletics to Dallas-Ft. Worth.
- 2013 — In his first major league start Reds OF Billy Hamilton reaches base five times and steals four bases, becoming the first player to do so in the modern era. The Reds defeat the Astros, 6 - 5, as Hamilton scores a key run in the top of the 13th.
Best of Twitter:
- This is pretty incredible...
A Yastrzemski just homered at Fenway.
— MLB (@MLB) September 18, 2019
Can you believe it? pic.twitter.com/IaEhCDyhwF
- Going deeper on the Semien/Ruth/Gehrig comparison...
Thread: Okay so this was posted yesterday and I thought it was interesting. Using just 8 of Marcus Semien’s “standard” stats, you can narrow down all of baseball history to a list of just him and 4 other player seasons. How common is this? @MikeSelleck pic.twitter.com/rpEHw69KaS
— Jeremy Frank (@MLBRandomStats) September 17, 2019
- Hendriks’s 2019 might be even more impressive than Treinen’s 2018...
Liam keeps making history! #RootedInOakland pic.twitter.com/WSykhitgwY
— Oakland A's (@Athletics) September 18, 2019