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Originally Posted by mr. tegu
It's truly amazing how badly the 2014 season destroyed the A's. We ended it in epic fashion but they were struggling for quite a while after starting so good.
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Trading away their cleanup hitter in the midst of a pennant race was SMART.
As well trading away their all-world shortstop prospect for a half year of Jason Hammel and SAMARDIZHJA.
Billy Beane seemed to be trying to GM while under some sort of substance from mid 2014-mid 2015.