The A’s are 0-for-2 in the Wild Card round, and if you include the 2001 team that won 102 games and was the Wild Card because the 2001 Mariners won 116, then they’re 0-for-3. They lost to the Yankees in the ALDS, which you may remember from the opening scene of MONEYBALL.
But now we’re in the new Moneyball era. An even cheaper franchise has crashed their pity party. Here come the Rays, a team that hasn’t been to the postseason since 2013, but as many times in their franchise history (4 since 1998) as the A’s have been since 2012.