The Oakland Athletics clubhouse resembles more of a soap opera than sports team these days.
Billy Butler has been out the last two games “because he was injured in an altercation with teammate Danny Valencia,” sources tell the San Francisco Chronicle’s Susan Slusser. No player or manager spoke on the record to Slusser, though manager Bob Melvin had previously noted that what would ordinarily sound like “flu-like symptoms” — nausea and vomiting — was categorically not the flu.
Slusser notes Valencia didn’t play on Sunday, but I’m not sure what to make of the fact that Danny Valencia played in Saturday’s contest.