With Spring Training fast approaching, MLB.com will take a look at a different aspect of this year's Athletics squad each day this week. Today's topic: The perfect season.
OAKLAND -- The 2017 A's season won't be perfect but it could be perfectly interesting should this squad manage to put on a surprisingly good showing.
Are the A's expected to compete? No. Especially not in an intimidating American League West field. But neither were the 2012 A's, who delivered one of the greatest come-from-behind division wins in Major League history.
A lot would have to go right for history to repeat itself, but baseball typically delights with a surprise team each season, and the A's say there's no reason to believe that can't be them.