The Oakland A’s will almost certainly lose Liam Hendriks this winter. Their All-Star closer, and the reigning AL Reliever of the Year, is a free agent who figures to land well beyond their modest price range, so as usual another big name will leave town.
But for now the A’s aren’t giving us much to talk about in terms of the future, so let’s take a look back at the weird 2020 season.
All of Athletics Nation already knows Hendriks is awesome. According to the headline of the column I never got around to writing last winter, 2019 Hendriks was basically 2018 Blake Treinen, who himself had enjoyed one of the greatest reliever seasons in history.