Elephant Rumblings: Bryce Harper signs record contract with Phillies

A’s Coverage:

• Hall: Spring Game #7 - A’s break losing streak, win 10-3...
• Hall: Oakland A’s spring injury updates - Nick Martini will miss a couple weeks...
• McWilliams: The A’s won’t shy away from the opener and neither will the rest of baseball... ($)
• Zimmerman: Oakland A’s drop ‘jewel box’ design for proposed Howard Terminal stadium...
• Athletics Nation 2019 Spring Game Thread Auditions...
• Brazil: Jesus Luzardo has all eyes on him at A’s camp with ‘off-the-charts talent’...
• Hall: Re-Introducing Oakland A’s 2019 minor league free agent signings...
• Oakland A’s 2019 Community Prospect List #20: Wyatt Marks shows strikeout stuff...

MLB News:

• Passan: Harper, Phillies agree to 13-year, $330 million deal with full no-trade clause, no opt-outs
• Rosenthal: Baseball’s owners, players making progress on rules changes; economic discussions still to come... ($)
• Feinsand: Blue Jays to sign Clay Buccholz to one-year deal...
• Mish: Toronto adds reliever Bud Norris...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Szymborski: Stupid Money is Smart Money - A Tale of Bryce Harper...
• Sarris: Two relative bargains — Bryce Harper and Manny Machado — do not prove free agency is healthy... ($)
• Stark: ‘He was miraculous’: The José Fernández free agency that never was... ($)
• Feinsand: With Bryce to Phils, what next for Keuchel, Kimbrel?
• Castrovince: 7 feel-good stories from Spring Training...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1947: In anticipation of the signing of the team’s first black players, Bill Veeck, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, sets up a spring training camp there for the Cleveland Indians. Arizona is chosen because of its relatively tolerant racial climate. During the season, Veeck will sign the American League’s first black player, Larry Doby, who will train at the camp. The New York Giants also set up camp in Arizona, while the Brooklyn Dodgers move their training camp from Florida to Havana, Cuba.
• 2005: Pitcher Tim Hudson, deciding not to file for free agency at the end of the season, agrees to a four-year, $47-million contract extension with his new team, the Atlanta Braves. Hudson, who was acquired in a trade with the Oakland Athletics in the off-season, grew up near Atlanta and rooted for the local team as a youngster. In 2004 he posted a 12-6 record with a 3.53 ERA.

Best of Twitter:

• Kyler Murray measured in about two inches taller than I expected...

• If Chris Bassitt is really back up to 96 MPH, then the A’s rotation looks a whole lot deeper...

• The newest rendering of the Howard Terminal ballpark looks fantastic...