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Oakland Athletics’ 25-Man Roster Decisions: Insanity Defined (Again) For the A’s

Last season, I wrote a piece about the failing bullpen and Bob Melvin ignoring Albert Einstein’s quote “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

With the 2016 roster whittled down to 25, here we go again – Part II.

While BoMel can only play the cards he’s dealt – and he seemed to do an adequate job in determining the starting pitching staff and bullpen – he appears to be back into old habits, having discarded some valuable contributors to the team in favor of the oft-injured, no-arm, .