Bob, your starting pitcher was dealing today and had only thrown 83 pitches through 6 innings. He had retired the last seven batters he faced. But you pulled him.
Oh, I know, his spot was due up in the top of the 7th inning. Mark Ellis led off that inning with a home run to break [...]

This is the first time this season I’ve taken a look at the team’s VORP standings on Baseball Prospectus. If you don’t know what VORP is, it stands for Value Over Replacement Player and you can read more about it here.
Offense
Top three performers:
Daric Barton – 14.3
Kurt Suzuki – 8.8
Adam Rosales – 8.7
Barton at the top [...]

OK, they did score one run in this game. And it came courtesy of Josh Donalson. Josh Donaldson! The rest of the A’s couldn’t drive in a run to save their lives yesterday afternoon.
However, neither could the Rangers, for awhile, so this game dragged on for 12 innings. The A’s bullpen pulled of a few [...]

Teams don’t usually win games in which their pitchers give up five home runs to the other team.
Such was the case last night as the Rangers chased Gio Gonzalez after only 4 innings pitched and then proceeded to tee off on Chad Gaudin and Henry Rodriguez.
I turned it on right after Gio’s balk resulted in [...]

I turned on today’s game in the bottom of the 4th inning. The A’s were just about to score two unearned runs off James Shields and take a 4-0 lead. I thought, this is cool. The A’s look like they’re going to win this series.
And yes, I noticed when Dallas Braden took the hill in [...]