Overview
- The Athletics announced Friday that David Forst, who spent 27 years with the organization and was GM since 2015, and the club have mutually agreed to part ways.
- Assistant general manager Dan Feinstein was named interim GM for the remainder of the 2026 season while the team conducts a comprehensive search for a permanent successor.
- Multiple outlets and league sources reported that Forst's unwillingness to relocate to Las Vegas with the franchise played a substantive role in the split, and some described the move as effectively a firing.
- The front-office change follows a severe on-field slide this season in which the A's fell to a 45–70 record and suffered an extended losing streak that heightened pressure on leadership.
- Forst's departure severs a throughline to the Moneyball era and leaves the club to balance relocation planning, payroll and pitching recruitment as it builds toward a planned 2028 move to Las Vegas.