MESA, Ariz. — Jesus Luzardo enters A’s spring training with a type of buzz rarely seen with such a young pitcher.
It’s a buzz the 21-year-old created all on his own last year, when he blazed his minor league path from Single-A to Triple over the span of a season, just over a year removed from Tommy John surgery.
Luzardo is the talk of the town, in some ways viewed as the savior of the A’s rotation, which has had solid No. 1 starters in recent years but really has lacked a true “ace” since the early 2000s.