I feel like this is an audition. To see how we jell together, just the adjustment to the game. Seeing who can make it, who cannot.
OAKLAND — The command wasn’t as razor-sharp as it could be for Jharel Cotton, but he didn’t issue a single walk Monday, and apparently it’s a good thing.
There are critics to answer to back home in Michigan if he hands out too many free passes.
“I’ve got family members back home. Whenever I get a walk, they’re on me,” Cotton said.
His girlfriend, Emma Supanich, tends to be the harshest critic, he noted with a smile.