The Oakland A’s 2020 season is over, and the offseason will be here before we know it. There’s still more to discuss from the year gone by, but let’s also begin looking forward to 2021.
The A’s have 10 players hitting free agency this winter, representing a significant chunk of their contending roster. Their departures will bring around $45 million off the books, but some of that will need to go toward arbitration raises for remaining stars. The landscape is especially complicated by the unpredictable upcoming market, which could be affected in unknown ways by the shortened 2020 season and subsequent loss of revenue for all teams — will that help the A’s by suppressing free agent prices, or hurt them by further limiting their own notoriously low spending power?