There isn’t really a good guy or bad guy here. Just a couple players the A’s should move on from.
On Sunday night, news broke that Oakland A’s teammates Danny Valencia and Billy Butler had been involved in a clubhouse tussle that had left Butler injured. In the aftermath, multiple players spoke up to defend Valencia, while remaining silent regarding Butler. We now have more details on the incident, thanks to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle, who has been at the forefront reporting this entire bizarre episode.
Slusser’s follow-up story contains a surprising amount of detail on the fight, more than I would have expected for such an embarrassing altercation.