Every now and then, I like to check out the A’s page on Baseball Prospectus to see who are the top three position players and top three pitchers by VORP. And even more interesting, sometimes, is the number of players who have positive VORP and negative VORP. So let’s check it out as it stands [...]

Well it sure looks like all the A’s needed to get a few good wins was to face a couple of righty pitchers.
Matt Garza and Andy Sonnanstine were the victims of the A’s attack Saturday and Sunday respectively. Southpaw Scott Kazmir on Friday? Not so much, as he limited the A’s two hits and no [...]

Well it took 11 innings for the A’s to score a run. Luckily they had already put five up in the first inning – chasing Daisuke Matsuzaka – and their 12th inning run was a game-winner.
I was long gone in dreamland by the time Travis Buck beat out and high, infield chopper with the bases [...]

I always go into an A’s/Red Sox game fearing being vastly overmatched. But these aren’t the usual Red Sox.
Manny is gone, and David Ortiz is far less intimidating since last season’s wrist injury. Dustin Pedroia is struggling and Mike Lowell and Jason Varitek are getting up there in years. There was nothing frightening about this [...]

Josh Outman in, Sean Gallagher out.
Here is your 2009 Oakland A’s starting pitching rotation, in the order they will appear:
Braden
Cahill
Eveland
Anderson
Outman
My speculation yesterday that Anderson would start the home opener was wrong; Josh Outman is the guy.
Should the Angels be shaking in their boots at the sight of that fivesome?