Happy Hallowe’en! I’m just finishing my Justin Turner costume but I still need to finish sewing my refusal to wear a mask. But let me get straight to the point, as Kevin Cash will not allow me to begin a third paragraph.
It’s time to figure out, guess, recommend how the A’s should approach the off-season in preparation for 2021. In this unprecedented of off-seasons, I will not profess to know what the target payroll is or how the market will value free agents. So I am acting on the assumption that the A’s payroll will be less than it would have been and that free agents will be cheaper than they would have been — but in each case, how much is anybody’s guess.