Yankees starter and Bay Area native CC Sabathia characterized Monday’s Sonny Swap as “same old Yankees.”
As in, going out and adding elite talent in an effort to win a championship right now.
Anyone with even a passing interest in the A’s had to be thinking along those very same lines: Same old A’s.
As in, What the hell is going on?!?
Granted, it’s been widely expected — and for A’s fans, grudgingly accepted — for weeks now that Sonny Gray, the only proven-elite talent on Oakland’s roster (sorry, Yonder; we need more than a half-season), would be elsewhere after Monday’s trading deadline.