Jonathan Lucroy, signed by the A’s today to a one-year deal for a currently unknown amount of money, is either an excellent hitter coming off of a terrible season or he is a formerly excellent hitter one year into his “fall off a cliff” decline. I guess we’ll find out which it is.
Baseball, like life, is full of risks, but as risks go the A’s have taken a good one — easier to say before you even know the dollar amount, but clearly Oakland did in fact have some payroll flexibility left and have chosen to use it for Lucroy.