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- The Athletics and GM David Forst parted ways during the 2026 season after 11 years.
- Assistant GM Dan Feinstein will serve as interim general manager for the season.
- Forst’s tenure produced three postseason appearances and a 760-855 overall record.
The Athletics and General Manager David Forst have parted ways amid a rough 2026 campaign and after the A’s made the postseason just three times in his 11-year tenure at the helm, the club announced Friday.
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While the A’s said the team and Forst reached a mutual agreement, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reported that Forst was fired, citing sources. Forst, 50, began in the A’s front office as a scout in 2000 and later assistant general manager before taking over the GM role from “Moneyball”-famous Billy Beane.
“It was truly an honor to spend the last 27 years with the A’s, especially the last 11 as the GM,” Forst said in a statement. “This organization is full of incredibly talented, devoted, and good people, and I am lucky to have worked alongside them for so long.”
Assistant General Manager Dan Feinstein will take over as interim GM for the rest of the season as the club looks for a replacement, the A’s said. Feinstein has been with the A’s since 2011 after working for the club from 1994 to 2004 previously.
What was Forst’s legacy?
Forst announced an extension through 2026 during an end-of-season video call with reporters, though details of his contract were not disclosed.
“I’m as optimistic about this team, the organization, the system and the talent in the system as I have been in a long time,” Forst said in September 2025, after a 76-86 season that was derailed by a historically bad stretch where the club lost 20-of-21 games across parts of May and June.
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The firing comes as the A’s are just over a year away from a planned move to Las Vegas for the 2028 season. The club is currently in the middle of year two of a planned three-year residency in West Sacramento after they controversially left Oakland after the 2024 season. Forst did not want to relocate, according to reporting from The Athletic and USA Today’s Bob Nightengale.
Forst and the A’s had extended a few of the club’s young stars, like Tyler Soderstrom, Jacob Wilson and Lawrence Butler, ahead of the planned move.
Though Forst has faced criticism for his team’s recent struggles — the A’s haven’t made the playoffs since 2020 and lost more than 100 games in back-to-back seasons in 2022 and 2023 — he has also received praise for recent A’s draft picks, like Wilson, All-Star first baseman Nick Kurtz and pitcher Gage Jump, who have already turned into major Big League contributors.
Most recently, Forst stayed very quiet at the 2026 MLB trade deadline, only dealing a fringe MLB outfielder, Colby Thomas, despite the A’s having fallen well out of the playoff hunt thanks to a recent skid and poor injury luck.
Overall, the A’s went 760-855 over Forst’s time as general manager.
“David has been an integral part of the A’s and our success for nearly three decades,” A’s Owner John Fisher said in a statement. “His leadership, dedication, and commitment to this team have helped shape our baseball operations department and position us for the future. We are grateful for everything David has done for our organization.”
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