Elephant Rumblings: A’s Keep Mum on Wild Card Starter
A’s Coverage:
- Shea: For homegrown A’s, playoffs are nothing new...
- Killion: A’s Bob Melvin makes impossible job look easy...
- BWH: Dear Bob Melvin, PLEASE Make Matt Joyce Your Starting Catcher!
MLB News:
- Gonzalez: Dodgers defeat Rockies to clinch sixth straight NL West title...
- Rogers: Cubs regroup after dropping division, will start Jon Lester on Tuesday...
- ESPN: Shohei Ohtani undergoes Tommy John, will hit exclusively in 2019...
- Anderson: Mets ownership blamed Sandy Alderson for lack of spending and analytics staff...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Laurila: The Manager’s Perspective: Josh Bard on Process and the Distillation of Data...
- Ring: A Federal Grand Jury Is Investigating Major League Baseball...
- Sawchik: Forget Starting Pitchers. It’s Bullpen Season...
Today in Baseball History:
- 2012 - The Athletics tie the Rangers for the AL West lead with a 3 - 1 win over Texas for their fifth straight victory. Oakland trailed the Rangers by 13 games on June 30th, but now have a chance to win the division outright as the two teams face each other one final time tomorrow.
Best of Twitter:
- Sluss talks to Sonny...
Sonny Gray tells me he is not on the wild-card roster, isn’t sure if he would be on for the next round if Yankees advance but is hopeful. “I’m just hanging out,” he says.
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) October 2, 2018
Sonny Gray tells me he knew before he was traded that the A’s were going to be really good but he’s a little surprised it happened as soon as this year.
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) October 2, 2018
- Good for Blake!
Blake Treinen named Reliever of the Month for September.
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) October 1, 2018
- Still under wraps...
Bumped into an A’s exec in the press box elevator. Talked to him about tomorrow’s starting pitcher: “I’d tell ya, but I’d have to kill ya.”
— Anthony Garcia (@SportsAnthony) October 2, 2018