I would write about the A’s off-season but how much is there to say? Oakland’s best trade chips have been shipped off already in moves ranging from promising to downright baffling.
And free agents are hardly champing at the bit to consider choosing, out of 30 teams, the one with no payroll, no hope of contention in 2024, and no idea where they will play in 2025.
So with the hot stove soon to kick off, and hopefully more to say soon about the on field team, let’s take stock of the off-field situation and the bizarre “READY.