The Oakland A’s are an organization that is defined by missteps, but on Thursday, they took a significant step in the right direction.
Signing a star slugger like Khris Davis to a two-year extension wouldn’t be groundbreaking news for most teams. It’d be a big deal, of course, but it wouldn’t stand so starkly in the face of organizational convention.
That’s because other teams do their best to not let their best players walk away as free agents. The A’s, on the other hand, have shown their best players the door time and time again.
But the 31-year-old Davis — who is arguably the best home-run hitter in the game, having hit 143 since the start of the 2016 season — will not be joining that star-studded list of former A’s who left for greener pastures in their career primes.