DETROIT – Manager Bob Melvin is in search of a mojo modification.
After opening the week — and a seven-game road swing — with two losses in Seattle, the A’s (19-25) have made their way East to Detroit for a four-game weekend series with the Tigers.
First on the agenda in his effort to “change the mojo”? Getting first baseman Matt Olson into the three-hole for the first time this season.
Olson, who’s hit .194 with two home runs and 13 strikeouts in eight games since returning from a hand injury suffered in Oakland’s second game of the season, has not hit higher than fourth in 2019.