Oakland A's pick up manager Mark Kotsay's contract option for 2025 season – CBS News

Sports November 7, 2023 / 6:04 PM PST / AP A’s pick up manager contract option for 2025 season, fans rally at city hall to keep team in Oakland A’s pick up manager contract option for 2025 season, fans rally at city hall to keep team in Oakland 00:48 As the losses piled up for a second straight season under his watch, Mark Kotsay regularly walked through Oakland’s clubhouse after games to check in with players, encourage them and even turn the music on to lift everybody’s spirits when needed.The Athletics believe in Kotsay’s leadership through all of the challenges and changes, exercising the manager’s contract option for 2025.The club made the announcement Tuesday about Kotsay’s future following a 50-112 season that followed a 60-102 record for Kotsay’s first season in 2022. That ability of Kotsay to pull a player aside and share his own expertise has been so beneficial for the young A’s.”Mark comes from a unique background in terms of having experienced so many different things in the game as a player and being a first-round pick and highly decorated and coming up to the big leagues and struggling and being part of a team that lost 100-plus
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