Very few teams have struggled over the past century quite like this year’s MLB-worst A’s.
Oakland Athletics fans in the upper deck of the right field, display banners in discontent with A’s owner John Fisher moving the team to Las Vegas, during a game against the Kansas City Royals at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. The A’s were historically bad this season while winding up with a hideous 50-112 record after losing Sunday’s season finale. Even worse, there’s little reason to believe things will get a lot better over the next few years.
Ignoring the paradoxical business tenet of spending money to make money, Fisher has been content to continuously churn the team’s roster while suppressing payroll in a half-hearted attempt to win games.Since buying the A’s nearly 20 years ago, the two biggest free-agent deals Fisher has approved were both modest and utterly disastrous. Billy Butler’s 3-year, $30 million deal in 2014 is the largest contract Fisher ever doled out.
Their luck was abysmal considering it was the most stacked draft in perhaps two decades, featuring five possible generational players who in a normal year would be chosen No. 1 overall – LSU stars Paul Skenes and outfielder Dylan Crews , Florida slugger Wyatt Langford and prep outfielders Max Clark and Walker Jenkins .
Not that John Fisher will be complaining about not getting a lottery pick. He’s the guy who told ESPN that while getting a high draft pick may be seen as an opportunity, “It’s an expensive opportunity to sign high draft picks,” he said.There were a lot of factors leading to the A’s becoming the worst team in the majors this year, including youth and inexperience.
Aside from Hernaiz, it may be a little while before other prospects make a big push for playing time with the A’s. Not a lot of prospect sites are sold on the A’s farm system — MLB Pipeline has Oakland’s farm system ranked as the fifth-worst in the game.
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