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A’s Coverage:
- Slusser: A’s Mailbag - Impact of Astros’ sign-stealing scandal? Mike Fiers fallout? ($)
- Glanville: Baseball’s code of silence, hitters vs. pitchers, and why Mike Fiers was inevitable... ($$$)
- Drake: Oakland Athletics 2020 Top 50 Prospects (Prospects1500)...
- Johnson: Three A’s prospects named to Baseball America’s top 100 for 2020 season...
- Press Release: Oakland A’s Encourage Fans to Bring Food Donations to Saturday’s Fan Fest...
- Stites: Could Kyler Murray actually play in the NFL and MLB at the same time?
- Gallegos: Here are the AL West’s top corner infield pairs...
MLB News:
- DiComo: Mets hire ‘respected’ Rojas as new manager...
- Harding: Arenado - Comments were ‘out of character’...
- Flanagan: OF Alex Gordon officially staying with Royals on one-year, $4M deal...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Diamond: Astros Players Cheated. Baseball Wanted Answers. So It Made a Deal...
- Tutor: Baseball, You Make It Hard to Love You...
- Bitzer: It’s time to break up the Rockies...
- Baseball America: 2020 Top 100 Prospects... ($$$)
- Kelly: 5 HOF candidates who deserve longer looks in ‘21...
- Jaffe: A Candidate-by-Candidate Look at the 2020 Hall of Fame Election Results...
- Sickels: Outside the Top 100 - Additional AL prospects who could contribute in 2020... ($$$)
- Posnanski: The Baseball 100 - No. 65, Ernie Banks... ($$$)
Today in Baseball History:
- 1962 — Pitcher Bob Feller and infielder Jackie Robinson are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America in their first year of eligibility.
- 1979 — Outfielder Willie Mays, considered one of the greatest players of all time, is elected to the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA. Mays garners 409 out of 432 votes and becomes the 14th man to gain election in his first year on the ballot. Mays will be officially inducted on August 5th, along with Veterans Committee selections Warren Giles and Hack Wilson.
Best of Twitter:
- Another former Athletic looking to make a comeback...
this is just a bullpen you can imagine in game I go to me always now is that henderson is stronger than ever gentlemen @MLB @LosAstros @Marlins @JonHeyman @Royals @Angels @MeridianoTV pic.twitter.com/h8bhPdgoMl
— Henderson Alvarez (@HendersonA37) January 23, 2020
- This could be really interesting...
BREAKING: Pitch quality calculations reveal that in 2018 Houston Astros hitters faced later breaking pitches on average which should have resulted in more strikeouts based on historical pitch outcomes ......... however that did not happen
— MLB Quality of Pitch (@qopbaseball) January 23, 2020
Data to be disclosed soon
- Say what you will about Oakland’s roster turnover, but they’ve had some of the most consistent management in the game...
Last one on managers: the 3 longest serving managers with their current team are all in the AL: 1. Bob Melvin #A’s. 2. Terry Francona, #Indians. 3. Kevin Cash, Rays.
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) January 22, 2020
