HAPPY OPENING DAY, Athletics Nation!
While the A’s don’t start their season until tomorrow, today marks the beginning of the 2022 MLB campaign. With the last round of cuts to the minors, and the final spring game in the books, the Athletics are ready to take on the Phillies and begin the season.
With the Opening Day roster settled, we can dive into the strengths and weaknesses that the Athletics will start things off with. Over the last week and a half, FanGraphs have been publishing their positional power rankings for 2022. These rankings have gone through each team’s depth charts position-by-position and attempted to provide a definitive list of effectivity of the positions.