Good baseball teams take advantage of other teams’ mistakes and capitalize when given extra outs to play with.
The A’s, who sometimes don’t look like a good baseball team, fortunately looked like one last night, as they took advantage of four Cub errors on the way to a 9-5 win.
A rain delay of over an hour [...]

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 [...]

After getting swept by the Angels this weekend, the A’s are now riding a five-game losing streak and have scored a whopping total of five runs in those five games. That is the lowest total over a five-game span for the A’s since September 8-12, 1979. Those 1979 A’s lost 108 games.
These 2010 A’s are [...]

The A’s lost 4-0 to the Angels last night. Dallas Braden had to be perfect again and he wasn’t. As soon as Hideki Matsui launched that 3-run home run into the right field seats, we all knew this was was over.
So that means the A’s have scored two runs in the last three games! You [...]

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 [...]