{"id":95826,"date":"2025-02-17T17:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T22:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=95826"},"modified":"2025-02-17T17:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T22:04:17","slug":"as-agree-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/02\/17\/as-agree-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;s Agree to Contract Extension With Mark Kotsay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Athletics&#8217; productive offseason adds more exciting news as they have extended manager Mark Kotsay&#8217;s contract. According to reporter <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MartinJGallegos\/status\/1891512368699429007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mart\u00edn Gallegos<\/a>, the Athletics have extended him to a three-year deal that will run through 2028 with an option for 2029<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">. This provides Kotsay with a significant amount of time to help them with their rebuilding stage. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Looking at Kotsay&#8217;s coaching career, he spent time coaching with the San Diego Padres in 2015 and the Athletics in 2016. 2016 he was the Athletics bench coach, followed by a quality control coach in 2017. Then Kotsay was promoted to manager in December of 2021. Then, in November 2023, the A&#8217;s exercised Kotsay&#8217;s option for the 2025 season. Now that Kotsay has secured job security, he can continue to help the Athletics have a rebound season and guide them in their rebuilding stage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Athletics manager Mark Kotsay has reportedly agreed to a 3-year extension. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o9Ca6c7thC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/o9Ca6c7thC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBNetwork\/status\/1891514996070166685?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>A&#8217;s Extend Contract of Manager Mark Kotsay<\/h3>\n<h3>Kotsay&#8217;s Success as Manager<\/h3>\n<p>The Kotsay extension is reassuring as he is a highly glorified manager. Kotsay has received praise for his ability to direct a team that is going through a rebuild. He has also provided support through leadership and has the desire to compete and win. Kotsay was set to hit free agency following this season. If the A&#8217;s didn&#8217;t lock up Kotsay, another team would have snagged him up.<\/p>\n<p>Kotsay is respected by the A&#8217;s as he&#8217;s used his lengthy playing career as a way to connect with his team. He&#8217;s talked to them about the idea that baseball seasons have highs and lows similar to his playing career. He can also be described as sincere and offers a positive attitude to his players. Kotsay has been a positive role model while also being able to relate to his team as a former player. He has also received praise from Bruce Bochy, the Texas Rangers manager. Kotsay played in MLB for 17 years and has been managing the A&#8217;s for four seasons.<\/p>\n<h3>A&#8217;s Successful Offseason<\/h3>\n<p>The A&#8217;s in the second half last season performed well, and the team looks rejuvenated with a handful of key new additions. They also <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/01\/07\/athletics-brent-rooker-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_self\">locked up<\/a> slugger Brent Rooker who smashed 39 home runs last season. Their new additions consist of right-handed starter Luis Severino, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/01\/17\/jose-leclerc-athletics-contract-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">veteran reliever<\/a> Jos\u00e9 Leclerc, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/20\/athletics-sign-infielder-gio-urshela\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">infielder <\/a> Gio Urshela, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/14\/athletics-add-southpaw-starter-from-tampa-bay\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">starter<\/a> Jeffrey Springs. Kotsay has helped the athletics in numerous ways, including going through a big change, moving from Oakland to Sacramento, California. Overall, the Kotsay extension provides the Athletics with continued guidance to lead a team with a young core.<\/p>\n<div class=\"WaaZC\">\n<div class=\"RJPOee EIJn2\">\n<div class=\"NPrrbc\" data-cid=\"42fcf4e9-d93c-4192-9a2d-cdc2c870a89b\" data-uuids=\"5999005311322514471\">\n<div class=\"BMebGe btku5b fCrZyc LwdV0e FR7ZSc OJeuxf\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"View related links\" data-hveid=\"CA4QAQ\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwiZoeHPrcuLAxX7ElkFHfGEMrUQ3fYKegQIDhAB\">\n<div class=\"niO4u\">\n<div class=\"kHtcsd\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"WaaZC\">\n<div class=\"RJPOee EIJn2\">\n<div class=\"rPeykc\" data-hveid=\"CB8QAQ\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwiZoeHPrcuLAxX7ElkFHfGEMrUQo_EKegQIHxAB\">\u00a0Main Photo Credits: Troy Taormina-Imagn Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Athletics&#8217; productive offseason adds more exciting news as they have extended manager Mark Kotsay&#8217;s contract. According to reporter Mart\u00edn Gallegos, the Athletics have extended him to a three-year deal that will run through 2028 with an option for 2029. This provides Kotsay with a significant amount of time to help them with their rebuilding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4831,"featured_media":95858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1071],"tags":[3942,226,2444,2792,3931,3385,988,3203,93,259],"class_list":["post-95826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-mlb","tag-brent-rooker","tag-bruce-bochy","tag-contract-extension","tag-gio-urshela","tag-jeffrey-springs","tag-jose-leclerc","tag-luis-severino","tag-mark-kotsay","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-texas-rangers"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95826"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95861,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95826\/revisions\/95861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}