The Athletics are rarely a team to be worried about in any offseason. Aside from moving cities and being stuck in a minor league ballpark in the interim, they're still working with one of the thinnest payrolls in MLB. Some of their frugal peers have been fairly active this winter, but the A's have yet to make additions of the same spending caliber.
One major move they have made is to acquire Jeff McNeil from the Mets in exchange for pitching prospect Yordan Rodriguez. McNeil is far from the same player who won the batting title and posted a 140 OPS+ in 2022, but he hit to a respectable 111 OPS+ in 2025.