Some of the offseason moves are finally paying dividends.
The Oakland A’s offseason did not go the way most fans expected. Coming off a 97-win season and a playoff berth, folks generally assumed that they would look to stock up for an even stronger push in 2019, with the rotation as a particular area of need that could be addressed with a splashy move. Instead, to much criticism from the fanbase, the club mostly stuck with what they had and filled in the blanks with cheap gambles...