I wouldn't normally do a Beaneball post about the retirement of someone who never played for the A's or has any particular real connection to the A's except of course that Kevin Youkilis plays a bigger part than any other non-Athletic in Moneyball and as we all know nobody thinks about the A's without thinking "Moneyball" so we may as well cover Moneyball-related news just the same as we do A's-related news.

In any event, I vote that Oakland hire Youkilis as AZL hitting coach when everyone else gets bumped up a level due to the elevation of Marcus Jensen.