Who would be selected for a mythical All-Time Athletics (A’s) dream team roster? Who would be the starters and who the backups? Who gets snubbed, not quite good enough to make the squad? And how have other authors, as well as fan surveys and the like, answered this fun question throughout the years?<\/p>\n
This is the latest of my Seamheads postings\u00c2\u00a0 that summarize draft book chapters in my forthcoming book on baseball “All-Time Teams”<\/a> (book title TBD.) As I update\/write each chapter, I will post an abstract here, with a link to the full draft chapter as a PDF file hosted at my personal website. I am doing this in part to get comments and feedback as I continue the writing process. My intention is to post another team’s chapter every few weeks. To read the entire draft chapter for the Athletics, please see the\u00c2\u00a0 index web page<\/a> and see the PDF for the Athletics chapter. Also, I encourage you to read the draft of the book introduction<\/a> as well, which explains a few ground rules for this project (e.g., that I am not separating\u00c2\u00a0 OF positions into RF, CF, LF, and that I am only counting the time players played for that particular franchise, not their time played for other teams).<\/p>\n I will here list my selections for starter and backup at each position, including six outfielders (without separation by RF\/CF\/LF), and also including 10 pitchers (any combination of up to 8 starters and up to 4 relievers). For my write-ups on why I chose each player, and for the many other players I considered at each position, see the full draft chapter for this team<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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