Oakland A’s owner John Fisher made some terrible decisions during this coronavirus pandemic shutdown, particularly involving whether to continue paying many of his employees. Now, for the second time, he is reversing one of those highly criticized moves.
At the end of May, the A’s announced that they planned furlough their amateur scouts after the MLB draft. However, it turns out that some of them never went on leave, and the rest will return to work sooner than expected, according to general manager David Forst. The key quote (h/t Scott Bair of NBCS):
“That was a big thing for us,” Forst said in an interview with Chris Townsend on A’s Cast.