Trades the Oakland Athletics Need to Make to Contend in the AL West

In Major League Baseball, there are two types of winning teams. There are teams that can go out and buy the best talent out there (read: Yankees) and simply overpower any team that dares stand in its way. Then, there are teams that do things more tactfully. There are the teams that find prospects that they like and raise them through the farm system until they develop into a primetime player (still on their minor league contract) and get as much as you can out of that player before he gets bought away by the previous teams.

Newsflash: The A's are no New York Yankees.

This means that the A's have to be the best of t...

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