There is no hindsight here, nothing that wasn’t said long before the season began, not even a trayce (sic, to my stomach, that is). It’s the manager and front office that has yet to catch up with observant and rational fans that has the A’s struggling to win half their games.
I do believe that the current group of players available to Oakland has enough talent to play .500 ball, but the “razor thin margin” is that this bunch simply does not have enough talent for a poorly selected roster to be poorly utilized and still break even in the won/loss column.