[this team has been taken. if you're interested in the theme anyway, sitemail me and I'll try to remember the next time a team becomes available.]]

Franchise Progressive With Farm System will need a new owner for the Oakland A's franchise, going into the 1980 season. The roster is loaded, but the current owner is leaving WIS. He called it "an immediate juggernaut starting in 1980 and 1981, and they have a lot of talent in the years after that as well". They'll get future rookies who made their WIS debut with Oakland (Tony Phillips, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, etc). The current (1979) season goes until very early July. If someone wants to claim the team before then, they could make trades that would take effect after the current season.

Here is the potential roster for 1980. Only 25 players can be kept, so at least 7 have to be waived:

		C	1980 Jim Essian	R	321	285	5	29	1-3	18-30	57.0	.232	.302	.323	B-/B	$2,524,138
		1B	1980 Dave Revering	L	412	376	15	62	1-0	37-32	25.1	.290	.344	.492	C-/D+	$2,525,918
		2B	1980 Rodney Scott	S	655	567	0	46	63-13	75-70	567.0	.224	.307	.293	B/C	$3,451,963
		3B	1980 Wayne Gross	L	419	366	14	61	5-3	39-44	26.1	.281	.355	.467	C/D-	$2,491,133
		SS	1980 Chris Speier	R	447	388	1	32	0-3	38-52	388.0	.265	.351	.330	B-/D+	$2,400,437
		OF	1980 Tony Armas	R	666	628	35	109	5-3	128-29	17.9	.279	.310	.500	C/A-	$4,862,162
		OF	1980 Dwayne Murphy	L	702	573	13	68	26-15	96-102	44.1	.274	.384	.380	A-/A+	$6,644,235
		OF	1980 Rickey Henderson	R	722	591	9	53	100-26	54-117	65.7	.303	.420	.399	B/A+	$7,134,828
		OF	1980 Billy North	S	504	418	1	19	45-19	78-81	415.0	.251	.373	.292	B/A-	$3,659,572
		OF	1980 Miguel Dilone	S	574	535	0	40	61-18	45-28	528.0	.341	.375	.432	C/C-	$4,805,975
		OF	1980 Thad Bosley	L	165	149	2	14	3-2	27-10	73.5	.224	.272	.279	D/D-	$611,640
		SS	1980 Tom Veryzer	R	388	363	2	28	0-5	25-10	179.0	.271	.303	.321	B/D+	$1,861,825
		3B	1980 Aurelio Rodriguez	R	365	339	5	27	1-1	61-13	67.8	.209	.239	.310	B/D-	$1,242,024
		C	1980 Dave Rader	L	154	139	3	17	1-1	12-14	45.7	.328	.388	.474	C/C	$1,825,538
		1B	1980 Jeff Newman	R	474	438	15	56	3-4	81-25	29.2	.233	.273	.384	D/D	$2,061,544
		OF	1980 Mike Davis	L	107	95	1	8	2-1	14-7	95.0	.211	.262	.284	C/D+	$376,495
		2B	1980 Jeff Cox	R	194	169	0	9	8-5	23-14	169.0	.213	.273	.231	B-/C+	$870,324
		3B	1980 Elliott Maddox	R	478	411	4	34	1-9	44-52	102.8	.246	.336	.319	B/C-	$2,445,877
		OF	1980 Jim Norris	L	207	176	0	16	6-3	16-23	174.0	.247	.327	.276	A+/D-	$829,709
Batting Totals					7954	7006	125	728	332-134	911-753	55.9	.265	.337	.372	B-/C	$52,625,337

		SP	1980 Mike Torrez	R	9-16-0	210	5.08	.313	1.60	4.21	3.26	0.78	97-75	$3,341,226
		SP/RP	1980 Dennis Eckersley	R	12-14-0	201	4.28	.248	1.17	5.51	2.00	1.14	121-44	$4,737,429
		SP/RP	1980 Vida Blue	L	14-10-0	226	2.97	.242	1.17	5.18	2.45	0.56	129-61	$5,686,578
		SP/RP	1980 Rick Langford	R	19-12-0	290	3.26	.255	1.17	3.17	1.99	0.90	102-64	$6,729,252
		SP/RP	1980 Steve McCatty	R	14-14-0	222	3.86	.240	1.36	4.63	4.02	1.10	114-99	$4,554,975
		SP/RP	1980 Mike Norris	R	22-9-0	285	2.53	.209	1.05	5.70	2.63	0.57	180-83	$9,318,098
		SP/RP	1980 John Henry Johnson	L	2-2-4	39	2.33	.199	1.09	10.24	3.49	0.47	44-15	$1,247,036
		SP/RP	1980 Doc Medich	R	14-11-0	206	3.92	.285	1.40	4.01	2.47	0.57	91-56	$4,057,220
		SP/RP	1980 Brian Kingman	R	8-20-0	212	3.83	.256	1.38	4.94	3.49	0.89	116-82	$4,327,292
		SP/RP	1980 Doug Bair	R	3-6-6	85	4.24	.277	1.53	6.56	4.13	0.74	62-39	$1,418,615
		SP/RP	1980 Bob Lacey	L	3-2-6	80	2.94	.234	1.12	5.08	2.37	0.79	45-21	$2,093,353
		SP/RP	1980 Dyar Miller	R	1-2-1	42	1.93	.242	1.14	6.00	2.36	0.21	28-11	$1,148,169
		SP/RP	1980 Jeff Jones	R	1-3-5	45	2.84	.204	1.31	6.90	5.28	0.41	34-26	$1,191,378
Pitching Totals					122-121-22	2,143	3.56	.252	1.27	4.91	2.86	0.78	1163-676	$49,850,621

That's $102 M in salary before cutting the worst players. For perspective, the highest payroll any team has in our current 1979 season is $93 M. Most teams are between $81 - 88 M. This Oakland roster has a superstar outfield, some great pitchers, and plenty of trade bait on the pitching staff.

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The A's also have Dave Lemanczyk, and 2 players on IR in 1980: catcher Ron Hodges and pitcher Mike Morgan.

Posted by contrarian23 on 5/27/2016 1:29:00 AM (view original):
The A's also have Dave Lemanczyk, and 2 players on IR in 1980: catcher Ron Hodges and pitcher Mike Morgan.

Right, thanks for mentioning those. Lemanczyk would probably be a good choice to cut, but Morgan has a future! Those two on IR do not count against the 25-keeper limit.

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