Trevor Cahill: Old, Yet Somehow New

You know the tale. The Oakland A’s acquire a young, talented player, develop him into a quality major leaguer, then trade him for more younger and talented players. Most of you reading this remember Trevor Cahill, but others may only know the name from whispers of a trade that brought key pieces of the team’s last postseason run, Jarrod Parker and Ryan Cook to Oakland.

Cahill was dependable, if not good during his time in Oakland with seasons of 32, 30, and 34 starts and no less than 178.2 IP in any of them. He had one truly great year as far as on-field results are concerned. A season in which he defied his peripheral numbers and posted a 2.97 ERA in just under 200 IP. He continued to be a…