It didn’t take long for A’s fans to start writing revisionist history on Wednesday.
That’s what happens when your team’s starting pitcher in a winner-take-all playoff game goes two innings and allows four runs, effectively torpedoing any chance of victory and ending the team’s season.
After something like that it’s easy to second-guess manager Bob Melvin — or more accurately, the A’s front-office, as one has to think that’s where the decision truly emanated.
But to say that the A’s should have gone with Mike Fiers instead of Sean Manaea as the starter Wednesday’s American League Wild Card Game is downright ridiculous.