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SEATTLE - Entering 2018, Oakland’s future looked bright - just not necessarily this season. The rebuilding team had finished in last place in each of the previous three years and, with one of the smallest payrolls in the game, a.500 season seemed like a decent goal.
Then, the A’s starting pitchers started to go down with various injuries, four of them requiring season-ending Tommy John surgery, and last place started to appear more like a reality again.