Elephant Rumblings: UPDATE: All MLB baseball cancelled or postponed until mid-April

UPDATE - MLB Schedule Suspension:

MLB.com: Opening Day delayed at least 2 weeks; Spring Training games cancelled

Passan with the Tweet...

A’s Coverage:

• Crowley and Rubin: A’s season-opening series in doubt; Bay Bridge games with Giants will move or be canceled amid coronavirus bans
• Gallegos: A’s looking at alternatives to March home games
• Hill: It is time to extend Matt Olson
• Brazil: Jesus Luzardo Q&A: A’s phenom talks this season’s tight-knit clubhouse
• Sheehan: Oakland A’s Season Preview: Can They Finally Make a Deep October Run?

MLB News:

• Passan: MLB hopeful, but bracing for disruptions
• Lacques and Nightengale: ‘Have to do what’s right for our home city’: Mariners face uncertainty as opening games moved from Seattle
• Calcaterra: MLBPA issues statement about coronavirus response
• Adams: Cardinals, Yadier Molina Discussing Extension
• MLB.com: Injury updates: Yanks, Conforto, Encarnación

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Greene: Baseball as Panopticon (great, long read exploring the COVID-19 impact on baseball)
• WBUR: April 17, 1979: The Night Only 250 Fans Showed Up In Oakland
• Bowman: Donaldson did ‘what was right for me’
• Monagan: The wild story of how the Cactus League came to be

Coronavirus (COVID-19) News:

• Coronavirus: COVID-19 Is Now Officially A Pandemic, WHO Says
• Calcaterra: Japanese leagues to play spring training games in empty ballparks over coronavirus fears
• Kussoy: March Madness 2020 will be played without fans because of coronavirus
• Johnson: NBA Suspends Games Until ‘Further Notice’ Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
• Harrington: NHL ‘evaluating the options’ after NBA’s decision to suspend season
• Marsden and Faez: La Liga suspended over coronavirus after Real Madrid players quarantined

Today in Baseball History:

• 1921 - Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspends eight members of the Chicago White Sox for their alleged involvement in the fixing of the 1919 World Series. The group includes outfielder Joe Jackson, who batted .375 in the Series. Others banned are Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsch, Chick Gandil, Fred McMullin, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver and Lefty Williams. None of them will ever play in organized baseball again.
• 2012 - New Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen is already in mid-season form. He gets ejected in the 6th inning of an otherwise placid Grapefruit League game against the Red Sox for arguing a foul ball call with umpire Tim Timmons.

Best of Twitter:

Jeff Passan is a good one to follow for updates on MLB response to coronavirus...

Back to, you know, actual baseball, cool visual of Sean Manaea tunneling ...

Update from Kaval on the new stadium EIR report...

Neat retweet from Susan Slusser...