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A’s head to winter meetings in need of starters, lots of them

Oakland Athletics' General Manager David Forst at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, September 6, 2016.

Oakland Athletics' General Manager David Forst at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, September 6, 2016.

Photo: Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle

Oakland’s surprising success in 2018 came despite its rotation devastation, but pulling off such a high wire act again would be next to impossible.

So the A’s quest going into the winter meetings, which open Monday in Las Vegas, is to add starting pitching, and lots of it. After non-tendering Mike Fiers on Nov.