There won’t be a ton of position battles between younger and older players. The Oakland Athletics have made certain decisions.
They’d like to keep some of their younger talent in the minors and not rush then to the big leagues, making many positions already settled.
Shortstop is another one of those positions and it appears the team wants to keep their shortstop around for quite some time to come.
This may seem like a foreign to some of you out there.
Understandably, after the past two seasons that both featured 90-game losses, many of you may have written off Marcus Semien as the A’s shortstop of the future.