The so-called re-tooling was mired by injury and low performance for the Oakland Athletics. The biggest stars like Sonny Gray are scuffling, and things got so bad that Billy Butler and Danny Valencia are tussling in the clubhouse.
This isn’t the Swingin’ A’s of the 1970s, where Billy North and Reggie Jackson beat each other up (and Ray Fosse too) in Tiger Stadium. That team won a world championship. This team remains at around 17 games under .500. That’s worse than their record at the All-Star break (13 games under .