A’s looking for ‘impact player’ with late first-round draft pick – San Francisco Chronicle

A’s looking for ‘impact player’ with late first-round draft pick San Francisco Chronicle

Last June, the A’s admitted the risk of using their top draft pick on a two-sport player in Kyler Murray. On the eve of this year’s draft, A’s general manager David Forst said he still believes it was a risk worth taking. “A year ago, when we were sitting there, the information we had on Kyler was he was the best player for us to choose,” Forst said Sunday before the A’s series finale against the Astros. “I think everyone will acknowledge that circumstances changed between June and September, and September to December.” Murray, of course, returned to Oklahoma, won the Heisman Trophy as a qu…

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