MLB: The Oakland A’s had a 5-22 record prior to their game with the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday.
OAKLAND – It was 40 years ago Saturday when former Chicago Cubs manager Lee Elia went on a profanity-filled rant in a postgame meeting with reporters, an epic tirade in which he ripped into the team’s fans for their lack of support — and their possible lack of employment — and protected his players from what he felt was unfair criticism after a 5-14 start.
Kotsay is fully aware of where the rebuilding A’s are at as an organization, as they try to identify what players could be part of the solution going forward. Oakland entered Saturday with an eye-popping 8.05 ERA, the worst in MLB by a full 2.4 runs, and their .980 fielding percentage was tied with the Giants for 28th-best in the majors.
“But the reality is the only way that we can get out of this is through the continued work that we’re putting in, the preparation that we’re putting in. Building a level of confidence in these guys through those small victories, to me, is the right approach,” he said. “Tearing them down, getting on them for the physical errors that we’ve gone through — we can work on the physical errors, we can work on the preparation side with the controllables.
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