Happy Thursday, Athletics Nation!
How must it be to be a fan of a team that is in it to win it? Pretty nice, I imagine.
You might want to look to the Atlanta Braves to help immerse yourself in this fantasy. They won 101 games in 2022, the whole shebang in 2021, and they have two of my favorite players locked up until at least 2028, per Mark Bowman at MLB in reporting on the six-year, $73 million extension Sean Murphy signed with the Braves on Tuesday.
Oakland-to-Atlanta trades lucrative for Matt Olson and Sean Murphy, who signed contracts with Braves for a combined $241 million.