The Oakland A’s went 69-93 in their 2016 campaign. That’s a one-game improvement over 2015! It’s still good for last place in the AL West, though, for the second straight year. There’s no way to spin it: the A’s had a bad season.
The good news is that this was expected. Every fan base can squint in March and see a way their team could possibly contend, but this looked like a rebuilding year from the start. Some key injuries made things even worse than they could have been, but the odds were always against this group.
With that in mind, let’s look for some positives in this otherwise bummer of a season.