Overt the last five seasons, the A’s have ranked near the bottom of the league in slugging percentage.
2009: Last in the AL, 25th in MLB with a .397 slugging percentage.
2008: Dead last in all of MLB with a .369 slugging percentage.
2007: 11th in the AL, 23rd in MLB with a .407 slugging percentage.
2006: 13th in [...]

But man, has this been a rough stretch. Watching games just isn’t even much of a thought in my mind right now – though I may tune in to see a few innings of Gio Gonzalez tonight, as I missed his debut last week.
The A’s, as a team, slug at an AL-worst .366. Who on [...]

I truly believe that the A’s would have won last night’s game if they had 9 Rajai Davises.
Rajai Davis certainly would have scored from second on Kurt Suzuki’s single in the 3rd inning. Fred Lewis didn’t even try to throw to home. But regardless of what Lewis did or didn’t do, Tony DeFrancesco certainly wouldn’t [...]

It was an interesting weekend for the A’s, of which I was only able to watch a couple innings of Saturday’s game. So I didn’t get to see Chavez play third, I didn’t get to see the 9-run seventh inning yesterday, and I only got to see Carlos Gonzalez bat once. Maybe I’ll have more [...]