Sixteen games into the season now, the A’s are 12-4 and have the best record in the American League and are second only to the Braves in all of baseball. To be fair and realistic about it though, you have to look at two different records – versus Astros and versus non-Astros. The A’s just [...]

Well we are one week into a new Oakland A’s season and the A’s are 5-2. That is about as good as we could have expected over a seven-day stretch. I was worried when the team started 0-2 and scored a grand total of one run over 18 innings, but luckily all they needed was [...]

I put on an A’s shirt this morning, and as I did so I thought about how pitchers and catchers are reporting to spring training in a week and that I haven’t written a single blog post this offseason. It’s not that I haven’t been paying attention to the moves that have been made, but… [...]

Sunday afternoon, I had planned to watch the A’s final game of the season. I hadn’t watched many games in the final two months of the season as the A’s had faded, but I wanted to watch the last one and say goodbye to the green and gold for the winter. But that Padres-Giants game [...]