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 [...]

What an ugly weekend. I mean, the weather looked nice and it seemed like a beautiful weekend to spend in the Bay Area. But it was indeed an ugly weekend for the A’s. After dropping the first game against Tim Lincecum, the A’s found themselves behind in the late innnings in both Saturday’s and Sunday’s [...]

I love that the A’s won the first game of the Tigers series last night, and that they are 3-1 on the current road trip. But man, that game had “frustrating loss” written all over it. Dontrelle Willis was wild in the first inning. So wild, that Jim Leyland actually got the bullpen going with [...]

That’s the A’s record on this current road trip. And that’s cool, because it could have easily been 1-2 if Jake Fox’s ground ball to short didn’t eat up Julio Lugo, and if Kevin Kouzmanoff didn’t come through with one of the most clutch hits of the season. A gapper with the bases loaded is [...]

The A’s are such a roller coaster of a team. Ten days ago they were just getting started on a five-game losing streak in which they scored only five runs. It was maddening; it was pathetic. Then the Mariners came to town and they kicked them around to the tune of 14 runs over two [...]