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Young starters' growth key to A's in 2017

With Spring Training fast approaching, MLB.com will take a look at a different aspect of this year's A's squad each day this week. Today's topic: What's the difference?

OAKLAND -- The typically busy-bee A's kept mostly quiet this offseason, their biggest change coming not in a roster move but off the field in the form of management changes.

Former managing partner Lew Wolff passed the torch to a new leadership group -- majority owner John Fisher and president Dave Kaval, who replaced Michael Crowley -- that brought with it promises of an invigorated effort to build a new stadium.