So word came down last night that if "multiple team sources" are to be believed, the A's have decided to groom Jarrod Parker to be a reliever, rather than a starting pitcher. It really took this long?
One common fan refrain is that fans and bloggers should not purport to know better than the front office, which has access to so much more information, some of it proprietary and some of it from experts with whom only they can confer. How brazen for a fan to claim to know better than the experts themselves. Except that sometimes the outsiders are simply right.