The Oakland Athletics have a lot of areas in which they need to improve. They also have a lot of very good players, like Sonny Gray and Sean Doolittle, who would easily belong on a playoff team.
In 2014, the A’s got wiped out in the Wild Card game, and last season, they only won 68 games all year. It’s shocking to go from being a playoff team to being the worst club in the American League, but what’s even harder is to get back to the postseason after such a rough season.
Many of the Athletics’ top prospects – Sean Manaea, Matt Olson, Chad Pinder – were at Double-A Midland last season.