If you’re a baseball fan, you want tradez now and free agent signings sooner. If you’re a millennial, your attention span doesn’t allow you to think about February because you already lost interest in this sentence when it became longer than a tweet.
The fact is, though, as the off-season progresses — and by “progresses” I mean Giancarlo Stanton is still a Marlin, Shohei Ohtani is still a Ham Fighter (do you really need to fight ham? How scary can thin slices be?), and most of the desirable free agents are, well, still desirable free agents — what is becoming clearer to me is that patience might be a virtue for a team like the A’s.