photo credit: Bay Area News Group–Former A’s players Jose Canseco (33) and the late Tony Phillips (18) attending the A’s 1989 Championship reunion on Sat July 19, 2014

On the Major League Baseball podcast with Matt Harrington the Oakland A’s plan to honor former A’s players on Monday night. The A’s will pay tribute to Dave Henderson and Tony Phillips both who passed away this past year. The A’s will show highlights of their careers with the A’s and in baseball.

Al Jazeera reported that former New York Mets catcher Taylor Teagarden used performance enhancers and has been reportedly suspended from baseball for 80 games. Teagarden is not signed with a ball club and MLB has not released an official reason why Teagarden has been suspended. Meanwhile the Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard and the Washington Nationals Ryan Zimmerman were also named in the Al Jazeera report for performance enhancing. Zimmerman’s attorney William Burck said that the accusations were “outright lies.”

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