I’ve spent the last week praising the Oakland A’s offseason. They enjoyed a quietly efficient winter, filling more needs than their limited resources should have allowed. Now they enter 2018 with a legitimately good lineup, and every reason to hope that the future only gets better from here. They’re even improving their off-field brand as much as they can without a new stadium, between improvements to the Coliseum and some Grade-A trolling of the Giants.
However, there’s still one elephant in the room that must be addressed. No, Stomper, not you, but rather the starting rotation.