Lookout Linkage, 5/5/15

Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone! Here's some light reading to get your morning started:

• Nelson Cruz was named the AL Player of the Month.
• Tom Wilhelmsen appears to be on track to return after a successful bullpen session.
• The A's cut ties with outfielder Cody Ross.
• The Brewers have swapped out their manager after just a month of the 2015 season.
• MLB Daily Dish wonders which manager is likely to be fired next.
• The Padres have called up catching prospect Austin Hedges.
• Craig Edwards from Fangraphs provides MLB attendance numbers so far this season.
• Chris Mitchell of Fangraphs wonders how contact rates translate from the minors to the majors.
• Jameis Winston's contract with the Buccaneers disallows him from playing professional baseball.
• Jeff Sullivan at Fangraphs wonders what's going on with Jered Weaver.
• Adam Ottavino will undergo Tommy John surgery.
• A pair of games ended in the same strange way.