The A’s and Giants had offseasons from hell, but the Bay Area’s two teams are back on the diamond, ready to help us move on.
The A’s stuck with their plan to pawn off an entire baseball organization, one piece at a time, this offseason. Alas, major league rules demand they must field a team.
Shintaro Fujinami is a few years removed from being a hot shot in Japan, but the big right handler still has some strikeouts in that three-quarters delivery, the A’s reckon. He’s on a one-year deal and Oakland looks like it’ll give him every opportunity to pitch a ton of big-league innings. I’m excited to see what those look like.
The A’s also brought in Trevor May to close games. That’s a nice signing. And while I don’t know much about Esteury Ruiz and JJ Bleday the A’s seem pretty confident in both, and I can imagine a world where one of them breaks out in a big way. Pitch clocks are in, too. Pitchers now have 15 seconds to throw the ball when there’s no one on base and 20 seconds with runners. Umpires are on the watch for balks.
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