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It’s hard to keep the focus solely on the A’s as a baseball team. Their off-field nonsense has made the franchise itself a joke, and unfortunately that storyline is going to continue. When you narrow things, though, you see a team whose last two first-round picks, Kurtz and Jacob Wilson are going to combine for eight WAR this year. Their 2020 first-rounder is headed for a three-win season. Recent picks Denzel Clarke, Lawrence Butler, and Max Schuemann have played very well. The pitching is just bad, but there’s a core of controllable position players here who, in any other circumstance, would make the A’s an “it” team heading into 2026. This is not the last time I’ll be writing about Nick Kurtz.
