Elephant Rumblings: Surgery for Thor, A’s Canha on the Delayed Season

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)

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Yest to all of this please (great highlight to watch, the pre-Moneyball years, good times)...

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