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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Sonny Gray showed up at spring training eight months ago with big aspirations for himself and the Oakland Athletics this season.None of it worked out. He struggled and got injured more than once.Thats just the kind of year the As had, another similar story for the small-budget franchise hit by the injury bug time and again.Im not happy with the way the last two years have gone by any stretch, manager Bob Melvin said. I will think long and hard about it in the offseason.At 69-83, the As responded from losing 10 of 11 to win their final two games at Seattle and finish with one more victory than a year ago. But they finished in fifth place and at the bottom of the AL West for the second straight season -- another year of injuries and big-name departures.Oakland dealt left-hander Rich Hill and outfielder Josh Reddick to the NL West champion Dodgers at the deadline only to watch them shine elsewhere. It has been a common theme for years now.I was just as cranky as I ever was, you just didnt happen to see it, said Billy Beane, the executive vice president of baseball operations.Here are some thing to take from Oaklands season:INJURIES GALORE: The As put 11 players on the 60-day disabled list at some point, and 26 different players were hurt at some point, according to Beanes count.Its hard to assess this club because we never really saw it, Beane said.GRAYS HEALTH: Gray returned to pitch one inning last Wednesday night on the road against the Angels, his first start since Aug. 6 because of a forearm injury. He also had a stint on the disabled list with a strain behind his throwing shoulder.Getting their ace back on the mound, albeit for a short appearance, meant a lot to Gray and the As.The 26-year-old right-hander went 5-11 with a 5.69 ERA in 22 starts and 117 innings.SEMIENS STRIDES: So much was made of Marcus Semiens defensive struggles in 2015.He started 158 games at shortstop and played in 159, batting .238 with 27 home runs and 75 RBI. He cut his errors from a majors-high 35 last season to 21.Marcus deserves a ton of credit, general manager David Forst said. To go from where he was at the end of last season, where most people werent certain whether he could play the position, to turning himself into a reliable defensive shortstop is really a testament to his ability and his work.Rookie Ryon Healy provided a spark at third base to help stabilize an injury-plagued infield missing Jed Lowrie and Eric Sogard, and Healy will be the leader to win the job at third.YOUNG PITCHERS: Sean Manaea is one example where Beane notes that the As discovered some things through all the injuries.The rookie left-hander went 7-9 with a 3.86 ERA in 24 starts and 25 outings overall.He did such a great job of going off of his first couple starts and then getting better, and never being satisfied with how it was the time before, catcher Stephen Vogt said. He had a great year, its exciting, the future is very bright for him. Hes going to be good for a very long time.A few other rookies the As hardly expected to see so much of so soon -- Daniel Mengden, Jharel Cotton and Raul Alcantara -- could compete for rotation spots in 2017.This season wasnt how we wanted it to be, Manaea said. The group of young guys that are coming up, I feel like in the next couple years were going to be really, really good. We had flashes of that throughout the season. I feel like the more experience we get as a group, the more time we have together, were really going to take off.OUTFIELD CONCERNS: Khris Davis provided a bright spot with his offensive punch. He shattered his previous best marks with career-highs of 42 home runs and 102 RBI.While Davis is set to play left field and the As are hoping for a healthy Mark Canha to play right, center field is an open spot and a huge hole to fill. How Oakland will do so is to be determined.Theres no question center field, short- and long-term, is a concern, Beane said. 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Joe Root feels a session batting on a road inside the Chepauk stadium had helped him rediscover his fluency ahead of the fifth Test in Chennai.Keen to gain some practice time after feeling his footwork was all over the place in the previous Test in Mumbai, Root turned up the day before the match to find that the net facilities at the ground were not fit for use following the cyclone that hit the city in recent days.When the contingency plan - a session on the hard tennis courts at the stadium - also had to be abandoned due to the storm damage, Root decided that the road was the next best option.So while the conditions for his 30 minutes of throwdowns from batting coach Mark Ramprakash were not ideal, he felt the experience - one that was reminiscent to his youth playing in parks and garden and on roads - helped relax him and remind him of the simple pleasures of the game.My feet were all over the place against the seamers in Mumbai, Root said, so I wanted to iron a few things out.We tried to do it away from the cameras just in case it went pear-shaped. We were kindly helped by a few of the local guys and managed to get a few things sorted.It was nice to have that peace of mind going into the game, having worked on it. Something just clicked into place.To go back to being a kid again and remember what its like to play on a street with your mates, and get those reasons why you love playing and why you first got into cricket, to park all the pressure and think about the game ... that was nice.It did just relax me, and maybe thats all it needed.Root didnt look especially relaxed when he was given out, though. He kicked a water bottle and gave the foam boundary rope a whack with his bat after he was adjudged to have been caught behind after a review by India.Root was not only under the impression that he did not hit the ball - he later admitted that technology proved him wrong - but was frustrated at missing out on a century.dddddddddddd. It was the 13th time he has reached fifty in Test cricket in 2016, but only on three occasions has he gone on to make a century. Despite becoming the highest Test run-scorer in the world this year during the innings, his dismissal left him 11 runs short of the England record for most runs in a calendar year held by his boyhood hero, Michael Vaughan.I probably was a bit childish with my reaction as I walked off. But playing international cricket, youre going to be disappointed when you feel youve been hard done by - even if you havent.I was convinced I didnt hit it. Obviously the technology suggests otherwise, but it is bitterly disappointing when youre convinced out there that theres nothing.If you look at the wicketkeepers reaction, hes not interested either. I must have got a fine edge on it, but I didnt hear a noise and didnt feel anything on the bat.I think initially [my reaction] was from feeling like I didnt hit it. It went upstairs and I went up to Mo and said Ill be fine, Ive not got anywhere near it. Then you see the spike (on DRS) ... it was more disbelief than anything else, I suppose.But you sort of just have to suck it up, and put faith in the rest of the guys. I hope we can make that 500 score and put India under pressure.Id be lying if I was to say I wasnt frustrated about missing out on a century. But I feel my games in good order and I dont think Id have done anything differently if I had my time again.Id have still played the same shot. Im not going to change the way Im playing. Its just about being better at it. ' ' '