Not just holding on but getting better? By nativetexanasfan on Mar 7, 2021, 10:45am PST + I’ve been meaning to write about the A’s since spring training began. But John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle, an old colleague of mine at another newspaper, did a better job of it on Saturday than I could have. My point I had been aiming to make was: Don’t write off the A’s this season, even if the American League’s 2020 Reliever of the Year Liam Hendriks and shortstop Marcus Semien, third in the AL MVP voting in 2019, left this winter as free agents.