If you're an A's fan, your team isn't playing any more but you watch some players who are and can't help but wonder how they might fit into a 2016 Oakland team or a team gunning for a deep post-season in the 2016-19 window. A look at some of them, one by one...
I keep coming back to Alex Gordon as a guy the A's could target if they wanted to get really serious about competing these next 4 years and were willing to open the pocket book a bit to make it happen. No, Gordon will not come cheap; in fact he will command more than the A's are generally prepared to offer in the free agent market, a place where players are routinely paid handsomely for past performance only to level out or decline.