How will a short summer camp impact A`s pitching staff?
(WorldNews Sport)

No teammate lives nearby, so identifying a long toss partner for the duration of COVID-19-mandated lockdown proved challenging. Chris Bassitt knew, for health and safety reasons, he’d need to stick with that one throwing partner for the duration. A pitching coach friend had a guy he could link up with at the vacant East Carolina University baseball facilities. A local high school pitcher, overjoyed to get pointers from a big leaguer. Bassitt was just happy to find someone who could keep up. “For a high schooler, he`s pretty dang mature for his age,” Bassitt said. “And I trusted him to be smart about who he was hanging out with.” In a matter of days, the Oakland...