Athletics' Nick Kurtz leads one of best young cores in MLB for very fun reason
This young core of A's players is one of the most fun in all of baseball.
Athletics' Nick Kurtz leads one of best young cores in MLB for very fun reason originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . While the Athletics might have gone through some tumultuous times lately, there is one massive positive about the franchise right now: their future.
At 20-18, the Athletics are atop the AL West right now, but the main talking point for this team isn't their record right now, but rather the future of this team being so bright. As Kerry Miller of Bleacher Report highlighted, the Athletics' young core, led by Nick Kurtz, is one of the best in baseball. "3.
Athletics. Core Four: Nick Kurtz (23), Jacob Wilson (24), Tyler Soderstrom (24), Lawrence Butler (25)," Miller writes. Miller ranked the A's young core as the third-best in all of baseball, and it's thanks to Kurtz and company being great young sluggers.
This well-deserved ranking is even more fun when considering that these A's players are actually the future of the team. Why the young Athletics core is a very fun group While there are plenty of reasons why this young core for the Athletics is a fun group, one of the main reasons is that nearly all of these players have already signed long-term deals with the team. Butler signed his deal a year ago, while Wilson and Soderstrom just inked extensions for at least the next seven years.