MESA, Ariz. -- It's not an easy admission to make, but Stephen Vogt said he's got to be mentally tougher to play at the level he expects from himself.
"The team's struggles got to me mentally," Vogt said of an A's club that finished 2015 with the worst record in the American League at 68-94.The peak of Vogt's career came last July 14 when he took his place in Cincinnati among the best in the major leagues at the All-Star game. Two weeks later he was in the middle of what would become a season-worst 0-for-28 skid.Baseball goes like that.