OAKLAND – Atlanta Braves first baseman Matt Olson wore a red T-shirt inside the visiting team’s clubhouse at the Coliseum on Monday. On it was a caricature of a smiling Sean Murphy, wearing an outsized hat with the No. 12 on it as he sat at a desk working on a computer.
“We’re still not sure,” Olson said, “what the computer is (all about).”
Fair to say that Murphy, dealt by Oakland to Atlanta last November as part of a complex, three-team deal, has fit right in on a Braves team that leads the National League East and has designs on winning the World Series for the second time in three years.