Excluding the years when I don’t, every year I take my intuitive guesses as to which A’s players will most exceed fans’ expectations and which players will most disappoint. You can set your clock to it, but you wouldn’t want to because it has nothing to do with time.
This is not supposed to be scientific — hunches are allowed, especially if your name happens to be Quasimodo — and it’s also not supposed to be “top 3 players/bottom 3 players” so much as performance relative to our expectations.
Here are my best February guesses for you to weigh in on with your agreements, disagreements, and lists of your own.