It’s not just the A’s. Following his historic 60 HR season in 2025, who in their right mind would have predicted that Cal Raleigh would spend the first half of the 2026 batting .169/.271/.310? That same Raleigh appears to have shaken off the demons and is back to homering at his 2025 pace lately, with a .490 slugging percentage since the All-Star break. What do you make of that in terms of projecting what to expect in 2027?
The A’s have been there twice very recently. Lawrence Butler was so good in the second half of 2024, batting .300/.345/.553, 155 wRC+, that the A’s rewarded this “breakout star” with a 7 year, $65.5M extension. Butler…
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