When you win 97 games, along the way introducing future team cornerstones, breaking franchise records and witnessing several players turn into legitimate MVP candidates, regardless of how the season ended, fans have a lot to be excited about. And so is the case for the Oakland Athletics, who bowed out once again in the AL Wild Card Game but who also experienced their most interesting and provocative season in a while.
With as many dominant players on both sides of the ball that the A’s have, they put together one of the best catalogs of incredible plays of any MLB team last season.