AL West Threat Assessment: Oakland Athletics

Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports Welcome to LL’s annual overview of our division rivals in the AL West. While the Mariners won’t have to face a Russian Doll-like repetition of California and Texas teams day after day with some Colorado spice sprinkled on top again, make no mistake, these are the teams you will become so very sick of seeing. Our goal with this series is to do a deep dive on what exactly the flavor of that malaise will be. As we do every year, we’ll be summarizing each team’s offseason moves, taking stock of the general state of the team, analyzing best and worst-case outcomes for 2021, and trying to peer into the future to try to predict what the team will look like when the Mariners are, as we are constantly reminded, on The Rise. You can check out Addie’s deep dive into the hapless Texas Rangers here, and this series marches on with a look at the perpetual Mariner fun-suckers that are the Oakland Athletics.

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