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It’s easy, because writers on the internet clearly can come up with moves that multiple teams will agree on and that will actually happen. In fact the scribbling sound you hear is David Forst furiously taking notes as he reads this article. We now return you to reality, already in progress.
Small-market-y and generally the red-headed step-sister of baseball, the A’s need to zag where others zig, and in this case it means rebuilding by cleverly swapping 6 years of control for 3-4. It’s counter-intuitive, but if you have enough pieces already in place, you deal from a deep enough farm system and you get the right players back, you have yourself a solid 3-4 year window.