With a relatively young ball club, you need a veteran presence to stabilize the team and keep things together.

To an extent, this would be the responsibility of the manager. Oakland A's skipper Bob Melvin has done a nice job of keeping a young team debilitated with injuries stay right in the thick of things in the American League.

What the A's need i...

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