It’s frustrating to watch a rookie flail at a pitcher’s pitch or struggle to read a fly ball off the bat, but at least you can hope for, watch and mark, improvement, and find out what you might have (or not have) a couple years down the road.
Contrast that with watch Seth Brown flail at the same changeup they threw him in 2019 or think of Aledmys Diaz coming back to supplant one of the young guys finally getting their extended shot, and the team just became more boring and no better.
Oakland’s lineup last night was even younger than you may have realized, in that several players are chronologically older yet still barely getting started in the big leagues.