You hear a lot these days about “high floors” and “high ceilings” and “low floors”. I haven’t heard so much about it since I took that real estate license course run by midgets for giants and basketball players. (If you’re wondering, my license was revoked after a scandal involving a giraffe, a dwarf, and a sexually ambiguous remark.)
Anyway, the point is the A’s actually have quite a bit of young talent who, while certainly possessing the capacity to bust also have the potential to be more than just “solid”. Let’s take a look at the present and the immediate future to see how good things might be if “a lot breaks right”.