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Photo by Ralph Freso/Getty Images The Oakland A’s lost their Cactus League exhibition on Tuesday, by the score of 12-3 to the Arizona D’Backs. The game wasn’t devoid of positive highlights, especially in the power department for the lineup. On the pitching side, most of the damage was concentrated among just a couple Oakland hurlers. First the good news. Jed Lowrie played his fifth game of the spring, and he finally collected his first hit. It wasn’t cheap, either, as he got all of one against Madison Bumgarner and hit it out for a homer, with 98.5 mph exit velocity.

Montas is pitching Sunday, but he’ll need to be activated first

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The Oakland A’s took a tough loss in the Cactus League on Tuesday, and if it was a regular season game we’d all be pretty bummed out about it. But since the final result doesn’t affect anything, we can instead focus on the positives that happened leading up to the disappointing conclusion. The final score was 9-8 against the Chicago Cubs, so naturally our good news begins on the offensive side of the ball. Before even considering who played well, the first note is who was playing at all. Two players were in the starting lineup for the first ti...

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images The Oakland A’s dropped their Cactus League game on Friday, 7-3 to the Angels, due mostly to their bullpen giving up a steady flow of runs. The damage was done against mixture of minor leaguers and backend MLB relievers. Instead, let’s focus on a few positives. First on the list is Matt Olson, who went deep off Shohei Ohtani in the 2nd inning for his second homer of the spring. The first baseman is looking for a bounce-back after batting just .195 last year and hitting only one dinger in the season’s final 17 games.

It might be even better than 2020