Sorry that I have to keep this brief, but a bulging disk (which is not what Michael Urban called it in one fateful tweet) in my neck is making typing a wee bit painful. Still I wanted to weigh in, and at least begin a discussion, around the notion that “the A’s never gave Franklin Barreto a chance”.
Barreto didn’t give the A’s a chance to give him a chance. From 2018 to the present the A’s have been a post-season contender, and in that position you can’t just hand the keys off for weeks or months at a time to someone whose career batting line now stands at .