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A’s Coverage:
- Carig: Brodie Van Wagenen’s comments show that baseball needs more people like Mike Fiers... ($$$)
- Johnson: Jessica Mendoza blames A’s Mike Fiers for making Astros scandal public...
- Coffey: A’s 2020 roster projection - The band is mostly staying together... ($$$)
- Rosenbaum: Here are the Top 10 catching prospects for 2020...
MLB News:
- DiComo: Beltrán, Mets mutually part ways...
- Wittenmyer: Will Venable, Buck Showalter among candidates for Astros job...
- Rosenthal: Mets considering current coach Luis Rojas for opening...
- Guardado: Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken becomes first woman with role at Major League level...
- Langs: OF George Springer, Astros avoid arbitration with one-year, $21M deal...
- Bowman: Braves bring back SS Adeiny Hechavarría on one-year, $1M deal...
- Guardado: Giants have one-year, $4M deal with lefty Drew Smyly...
- Fermín: OF Carlos Gomez to retire...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Jaffe: Out Before Reaching Home - Carlos Beltrán, Ex-Mets Manager...
- Baumann: MLB Tried to Bring the Astros Scandal to a Close. Instead, It’s Only Getting Bigger...
- Vardon: How MLB, the NBA and the PGA used ‘negotiation by bayonet’ to get a slice of state gambling revenue... ($$$)
- Clemens: The Best (Expected) Secondary Pitches of 2019...
- Posnanski: The Baseball 100 - No. 71, Bert Blyleven... ($$$)
Today in Baseball History:
- 2002 — OF Jermaine Dye agrees to a three-year extension worth $32 million to stay with the Oakland Athletics. Oakland is counting on Dye to fill the void created by the departure of Jason Giambi to the New York Yankees.
Best of Twitter:
- Some of the best takes on Fiers so far...
I wouldn’t say this started with Mike Fiers. Players were talking about the trash can was whispered by mid 2017, they knew, and were talking to reporters off the record about it. I just figured no player would put his name on it. Kudos to Fiers for being brave.
— Eno Sarris (@enosarris) January 16, 2020
The only acceptable take on Mike Fiers goes like this:
— Brodie Brazil (@BrodieNBCS) January 16, 2020
Thank you for putting your own name on the line to help baseball eliminate one of its most embarrassing scandals in history.
End of story.
Mike Fiers could have easily done this anonymously, then it only would have been a column and likely ended there because good reporters don't give up sources. He put his name on it and the game is better today because of it. He's not a target, he's to be commended.
— CJ Nitkowski (@CJNitkowski) January 16, 2020
Baseball needs more people like Mike Fiers, not fewer. The game owes him for saying something and putting his name to it. Silence and whispers only creates a sequel of the Steroid Era. Time for more light, not darkness. https://t.co/87cSjYHhMK
— Marc Carig (@MarcCarig) January 16, 2020
- We finally get to hear Fiers’ side of it...
Ryan Buchter on the @sternshow #WrapUpShow sheds a LOT of light on the @astros. Mike Fiers told @MLB that he’d give up his ring and his WS share if any of the Astros are suspended. He also confirms that they started this garbage in 2014 and it continued all last year.
— woods (@thestevenwoods) January 17, 2020
- The Kyler Murray story might not be over yet...
Talked to Cardinals QB Kyler Murray today and asked him if he would ever consider playing in the NFL and MLB in the same calendar year:
— Bob McManaman (@azbobbymac) January 17, 2020
“I think I could. ... Athletically, I think yeah, I could do it. I’ve been playing both my whole life. I would love to add that to the resume."
