The Baseball Hall of Fame elected four new members on Wednesday, but none of them have any connection with the Oakland A’s. Chipper Jones spent his entire career with the Braves, Trevor Hoffman was all NL and mostly Padres, and Jim Thome and Vladimir Guerrero are two sluggers who never did late-career DH stints in the green and gold. Congrats to the new honorees, and best of luck to the deserving Edgar Martinez next year.
But this is Athletics Nation, so let’s see how the news relates to Oakland — or doesn’t relate to us, as it turns out.