Kotsay is stressing opportunity rather than focusing on a roster stripped of star players for financial reasons.
Mark Kotsay has spent much of his first spring training as a big-league manager fielding questions about all that was lost.
“I think you prepare for a season with the mindset that there won’t be change,” Kotsay told reporters in Arizona. “And once change happens, you do your best to manage it and understand the direction it will take you, and in the end, you’re better for it.” Kotsay has stressed establishing an identity in the early part of the season, but is light on specifics other than emphasizing alert base-running and maintaining some semblance of power even without Olson and Chapman at the corners.
Melvin, for one, thinks Kotsay is up to it. Kotsay was on Melvin’s staff for six years and offered continuity and familiarity when his boss left Oakland to manage the San Diego Padres. Bob Melvin, who managed the A’s for 11 years before leaving for the Padres, applauds the selection of Mark Kotsay as his replacement.
Kotsay played 17 major league seasons for seven teams, hitting a career-best .314 for the A’s in 2004, playing with enthusiasm and an edge. His two-run inside-the-park home run against Minnesota in the American League Division Series was one of the seminal moments of the season.
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