At the trading deadline the A’s were sellers, something that was decried in May by the baseball gods when they sentenced the team to an inexplicable 1-20 stretch. Outside of that time the A’s are 48-43.
The A’s indeed sold, shipping star closer Mason Miller to the Padres for wunder-prospect Leo De Vries and 3 pitching prospects.
Meanwhile the A’s former neighbors, the San Francisco Giants, became unexpected sellers when a great season turned positively “May A’s” on them at a most inopportune time: the 2 weeks leading up to the deadline.
These developments are the basis for Saturday’s potpourri, which you can stir in a butter churn and pretend you are Nick Kurtz.