It still hurts every time. We’re accustomed to it by now, our All-Stars being traded year after year, but seeing the official headline always stings no matter how well you’ve prepared yourself. Now it’s real. Yonder Alonso is gone, like Sonny Gray before him, and Sean Doolittle before him, and countless more in summers and winters past.
That doesn’t mean this has to be a sad time, though. Bittersweet, perhaps, but more than anything hopeful. We’re watching the Next Good A’s Team assemble right in front of our eyes, a group of quality prospects all graduating together at the same.