ARLINGTON, Texas - With the A’s looking more at next year as the 2017 season dwindles down, every starting pitching performance, good or bad, could impact decisions the team makes this winter.
Oakland will have a lot of question marks in the rotation next spring, and while some pitchers helped themselves enormously this month - such as Daniel Mengden, who will get the ball for the season finale against the Rangers on Sunday - others haven’t left quite as strong an impression.
Count Saturday starter Daniel Gossett in the latter group. Gossett didn’t even make it out of the second inning in Oakland’s 8-4 loss Saturday, allowing four runs that inning including a two-run homer by Joey Gallo.