There are a lot of things that make baseball the very best sport, chief among them its unpredictability. The A’s are going to the playoffs with the lowest payroll in baseball, the tattered remains of an already subpar rotation, playing in one of the hardest divisions after getting off to just a miserable start.
With 162 games in a long season, baseball gives you more ups and downs than any sport, and allows for a slow, sometimes painful, sometimes joyous story to take shape. Let’s recap the surprise playoff season that was.
March 4
Nico thinks over which of the six potential A’s pitchers are most likely to fill out the starting rotation.