Elephant Rumblings: Former A’s third base coach Matt Williams to manage KBO’s Kia Tigers
Photo by Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images
A’s Coverage:
- Gallegos: Matt Williams leaving A’s to manage in Korea...
- Slusser: A’s Christenson up for Pirates’ manager job; Matt Williams headed to Korea... ($)
- Wilborn: Mark Kotsay emerges as candidate for Pirates manager...
- Gallegos: Inbox: Which free agents will be on A’s radar?
MLB News:
- Salisbury: Sources - Phillies interview Buck Showalter, Joe Girardi on Monday...
- Dierkes: Sam Fuld Declines To Interview For Managerial Vacancies With Cubs, Mets, Pirates...
- Adams and Todd: 2020 Managerial Search Tracker...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Drellich: Major League Baseball has lost public trust over the construction of its baseballs... ($$$)
- Passan: First comes the NLDS, then comes ... a baby? Inside Daniel Hudson’s life-altering weekend...
- Turk: Stepping Up to the Plate...
- McNear: The Nats Haven’t Forgotten Bryce Harper - but They Don’t Miss Him...
- Rosenthal: For the Astros, another memorable October night, another fantastic finish... ($$$)
Today in Baseball History:
- 1988 — With two outs in the bottom of the 9th inning, Kirk Gibson hits a two-run, pinch-home run off Dennis Eckersley to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 5 - 4 victory over the Oakland Athletics in Game 1 of the World Series. In his only plate appearance in the Series, Gibson, who did not start because of a strained left knee, limps around the bases as the Dodgers win one of the most dramatic games in Series history. Following the 2010 season, a panel of experts at the MLB Network will vote this game the 10th greatest game of the past fifty years.
Best of Twitter:
- Fernando hasn’t allowed an earned run over three appearances this postseason...
Fernando Rodney goes 1-2-3 in the 8th!
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) October 15, 2019
END 8 // #Nats 8, Cardinals 1 pic.twitter.com/gFAqOpvo0T
- Baseball is different this postseason, in many ways...
With @MLBRandomStats: Here's a plot demonstrating weekly temperature versus weekly HR/Barrel% for the entirety of the 2019 season. The red dot represents the postseason.
— Devan Fink (@DevanFink) October 15, 2019
r = 0.73 with postseason included
r = 0.77 without postseason included pic.twitter.com/gBD7SMrYbg
Increase in reliever usage, from regular season to postseason:
— Sam Miller (@SamMillerBB) October 14, 2019
2016: 17 percent
2017: 22 percent
2018: 24 percent
2019: 5 percent
- The Cardinals are putting together one of the weakest LCS showings in recent history...
The Cardinals are hitting .080/.130/.103 over their last 27 innings (or 3 full games).
— Jeremy Frank (@MLBRandomStats) October 15, 2019
American League pitchers (the guys guys who never ever bat except for in interleague play) batted .087/.127/.101 in 2019. https://t.co/bFzPvrcqJN
Marcell Ozuna refused to be interviewed in the Cardinals clubhouse. I asked him twice for an interview and he walked right past me - he didn’t even acknowledge me.
— Benjamin Hochman (@hochman) October 15, 2019