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Chris Bassitt explains rationale for return this season

It would have been easy for Chris Bassitt to say he was done for 2021. After taking that line drive off the face, and watching the Oakland A’s collapse over the next month and a half, it would have been understandable if he decided to focus on being ready for next year. The A’s will certainly need their ace in 2022 as they look to return to the playoffs.

But that is not Bassitt’s way. Instead, he worked as hard as possible, throwing four times in a nine day span in order to return.