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Rich Hill’s command is still missing after three spring starts, leaving the veteran lefty in search of answers as he attempts to regain the form that convinced A’s brass to risk a $ 6 million contract on him following just four big league starts in 2015. OAK Homepage News
Billy Burns led all rookies, as well as the entire A’s team, in stolen bases last season, but this week he’s far from the most prolific basestealer wearing the green and gold. Rickey Henderson, baseball’s all-time stolen-base leader, is in A’s camp as a guest instructor. OAK Homepage News
It was a rollicking first day of Spring Training for Hall of Famer, Oakland icon and A’s special instructor Rickey Henderson, whose presence in the clubhouse and on the field in Sunday morning at Hohokam Stadium seemed to brighten up everyone around him. OAK Homepage News
A’s teammates spoke quietly and thoughtfully as starter Jarrod Parker was likely out for the season again after another valiant attempt to come back from elbow problems that have plagued him for the last two years-plus. OAK Homepage News
The shred of optimism that Jarrod Parker and the A’s might have taken into Thursday evening regarding the right-hander’s again-injured elbow was dashed with tough news on Friday. An MRI exam revealed that Parker refractured the medial epicondyle in his right elbow, the same injury that occurred last May 8 while Parker was rehabbing from…
Craig Taylor