The Oakland A's are totally screwed.
Come trading season, however, that won't be such a bad thing for either them or the rest of Major League Baseball. The "For Sale" sign is going to go up, and everyone will benefit.
The writing has been on the wall for a while now, but the point has been reached where we can treat an A's fire sale as an inevitability. With their 3-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday, the A's dropped their American League-worst record to 17-32.
It would thus take a 15-game winning streak just to get them back to .