Naturally, with the 2024 A’s functionally eliminated from post-season contention around spring training, fans are looking ahead to 2025 and beyond pondering a team that might actually be as good as this year’s club has been since the calendar turned to July.
A common “worry” I see in the analysis, is the “problem” of a logjam at a position — will the A’s use off-season trades to leverage these “abundances” or will they recognize that there’s a reason “abundances” has quotes around it...?
The Rotation
There are two problems with the embarrassment of riches that is the A’s future rotation.