The year is now 2021, in hindsight is so 20/20, but today we take a look at the potentially championship-caliber team the A’s could have put together still on a relatively modest payroll.
I don’t think A’s fans are frustrated because Oakland didn’t land Trevor Bauer. We know that the team operates on a modest payroll, that revenues are way down, and that the beauty of this organization is its ability to seek out and identify value without paying top dollar.
But this off-season, where are the deals for a hidden star like Ramon Laureano, the moderate commitments to sneaky good relievers like Yusmeiro Petit (which my speech-to-text program mistakes for “use metal petite”), and so on?