LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Baseball operations in Oakland will stay the course, even after the club's plans to build a new stadium near Laney College abruptly ended last week.
That means the A's intend to surge forward with a youth movement set in motion months ago. Even while operating with no timeline to leave the Coliseum -- a proposition built on promises of increased revenue before stadium talks ended -- the club's brain trust still believes it is prudent, and doable, to lock up several members of its young core.
"I think that it's still a strategy that we're going to try to embark on," A's vice president of baseball operations Billy Beane said from the Winter Meetings on Monday.