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Athletics manager Mark Kotsay talks in the dugout during a Big League Weekend baseball game
against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Las Vegas Ballpark on Sunday, March 9, 2025, in Las Vegas.
(Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
By Ed Graney - RJ Sports
Whatever the reason — a sudden desire to compete on the field and reward those who will make it happen or to simply assure themselves a full allotment of revenue sharing potentially coming their way — the A’s this offseason have adopted a new philosophy.
They’re spending money unlike in recent times.
If you listen to players and manager Mark Kotsay, it’s more a sign of management wanting to contend, to finally opening the checkbook to field a competitive product.
To erase memories of the past three years, of 69 and 50 and 60 wins. To position the franchise in the brightest of lights when the team relocates to Las Vegas in 2028 after spending the next three years playing in Sacramento. To excite those in Southern Nevada that the team coming is committed to winning.
"I think it shows a lot of belief from the front office in terms of what we have here already and to bring in the pieces to make us better,” Brent Rooker said. “We all feel that in the next few years, we’re going to be walking into a window where we can win a lot of games and push for playoff contention. Which is all we want to do.”
https://www.reviewjournal.com/sport...t-times-as-spending-money-on-players-3320981/
