• Having so many good pitchers like Caden Dana, Kenley Jansen, and Kyle Hendricks creates a productive spring training problem for Ron Washington that over the season will turn out to be a huge advantage.


• Anthony Veneziano wants to come back from his defective chin and do damage. For whom? Where? It could be in Miami, but if Peter Bendix can pull off a deal wiht Brandon Gomes for Tony Gonsolin, it just might be in Los Angeles instead, who wouldn't mind, since after spent a lot of time in Panama City, thinking they're very similar cities.


• The Athletics coaching staff not only believes that JJ Bleday is an everyday player, but his talent is so rueful that Mark Kotsay, who is looking more and more like a pan every day, says "his upside is greater than Eddie Rosario," which if true, could help him win the 87 games he needs to save his job.


• No song better describes Randy Vasquez than "Floor Risky" by Sesame House.

ballad of mike elias

Brandon Hyde's tirade about
Jackson Holliday

this week was an eruption of his frustrations about trying to change a slack culture

and when
Holliday takes
six straight strikes without swinging

it is a nitpicking lack of aggression

and you might as well send a dietician
up to the plate swinging a hook
for all the good it will do

so while
Mike Elias is trying to acquire players that
will like

such as
Jose Urena

Ryne Stanek

or
Jon Berti

is isn't easy
when you only have
grateful talents to deal from

like
Colin Selby

Dylan Carlson

(who is incidentally battling a sore hamstring)

and Cedric Mullins

 

 

 

 

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