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A’s Coverage:
- Rubin: ‘I think we’re all still stunned a bit:’ Mark Canha, Oakland A’s grapple with uncertain future
- Field: Time Could Be On A.J. Puk’s Side After Lengthy Rehab
- Tefertiller: Greg Deichmann Simplifies His Swing
- CBS Sports Staff: 2020 World Series odds, MLB picks, predictions: Computer model fading Athletics
- Becker: Ex-A’s World Series hero Dave Stewart says he doesn’t have coronavirus
MLB News:
- Puma: Mets’ Noah Syndergaard needs Tommy John surgery after tearing UCL
- McDonald: Latest on Shohei Ohtani, Griffin Canning
- Todd: 2020 Olympics Postponed; Latest On Baseball In Korea & Japan
- MLB.com: Here’s how big leaguers are working out from home
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Brown: Here’s our Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame: Only the best of the best allowed in ($$$)
- Moreno: Max Muncy Credits Career Turnaround To Changing Focus On Having ‘Fun
- Davidoff: Astros’ sign-stealing scandal perfect backdrop for final season of ‘Brockmire’
Baseball History Reader’s Club:
New Rumblings feature. Most of AN knows I’m a baseball history nerd. There are so many fantastic stories tucked away in the 100+ years of MLB lore. Seems like a good time to share a few of ‘em with you, one day at a time...
- June 28, 1976: Bowie Stops Charlie’s Checks (Acting with uncharacteristic decisiveness, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn voided Charlie Finley’s $3.5 million sale of three Oakland A’s stars and so threw the world of baseball into tendentious turmoil)
Today in Baseball History:
- 1885 - A new rule is adopted stating that the pitcher must “do all his throwing to bases before he has taken his stride as if to pitch ball.”
- 1951 - Hall of Fame player/manager Eddie Collins dies in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 63. Collins batted .333 and stole 744 bases over a 25-year career, and batted .328 in six World Series with the Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia Athletics.
- 2001 - Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson accidentally kills a dove with a pitch during the Diamondbacks’ 10 - 6 exhibition win over the San Francisco Giants. The dove makes the mistake of darting in front of a 95 mph fastball.
- 2010 - The Yankees release P Chad Gaudin, who was competing for the team’s fifth starter position, and, failing that, was expected to make the staff as a long reliever. Philip Hughes, who shined as a set-up man in 2009, is announced as the winner of the fifth starter competition, while Joba Chamberlain returns to the bullpen. Gaudin will sign a minor league deal with Oakland on March 28th but will be back with the Yanks before the end of the year.
Best of YouTube:
Today in Baseball History felt the need to clarify this fatality was in fact an accident...
Best of Twitter:
New pics of the place where Matt Olson hit his 500th home run for Oakland (potentially)
Best shots yet from @GlobeLifeField. Rangers new ballpark. pic.twitter.com/dOvfjJCavQ
— MLBcathedrals ⚾️ (@MLBcathedrals) March 23, 2020
You’re saying Chad Bradford wasn’t the linchpin of the 2002 squad?...
Day 13 without sports. Huge Billy Beane fan here but how can you have a movie about the Oakland A’s and not mention that pitching staff. Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, Barry Zito, and who could forget Aaron Harang.
— Jacob Fledderjohann (@MayorofCelina) March 24, 2020
Yest to all of this please (great highlight to watch, the pre-Moneyball years, good times)...
I hope a 2000 Oakland A’s Team Reunion happens this year. Invite everyone except AJ Hinch #RootedinOakland https://t.co/1554hZRhpB
— Lebron’s Breath (@Gotturds) March 24, 2020
Daily dose of COVID-19 humor...
My local Costco is out of Eggo waffles. A man & woman reached for the last box at the same time. Though he was there first by about 2 secs, the woman insisted they should go to her & her children. I KID YOU NOT, the man, who had his 2 teens w/him, replied, "Ma'am, leggo my Eggo."
— Emily R. King (@Emily_R_King) March 19, 2020