{"id":885282,"date":"2026-10-17T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885282\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T07:46:09","slug":"lets-hope-the-next-as-gm-and-pbo-are-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885282\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Hope The Next A\u2019s GM and PBO Are Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The post-season is always a blend of exciting and frustrating. Exciting to see games with so much riding on every pitch and to see some of the best teams strut their talent. Frustrating that the A\u2019s are not one of those teams and to reflect on the gap between how the best teams play and how the A\u2019s play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here\u2019s what the A\u2019s next GM\/PBO ought to be noticing as they put together their first rosters and coaching staffs:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Are there some other categories you can name where the teams still playing stand out, either in the way they are coached\/instructed to play on the field or, perhaps more importantly, how they are set up off the field? Soon the A\u2019s will hire a new front office \u2014 and then the new front office will begin to reshape how the A\u2019s are run with an eye on being on of the teams still playing when 27 of the teams are watching from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The post-season is always a blend of exciting and frustrating. Exciting to see games with so much riding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[240697,240698,371500,257,363,99],"class_list":["post-885282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-athletics-analysis","tag-athletics-discussion","tag-athletics-roster","tag-general","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}