This post is not in any a referendum on the choices the A's made this past off-season. It is the strictest exercise in 20/20 hindsight, to see just how competitive the A's could have become in 2009 had they enjoyed the benefit of a 3-month preview. Could the A's, if they had guessed, gambled, and strategized perfectly, have put together a team that could have competed with the 43-35 standard currently being set by the Rangers and Angels? The FA signing coup would have be...