Thank goodness. It’s time to go back to Oakland and, more importantly, go back to playing by American League rules.
A few thoughts from the weekend series with St. Louis:
1. What does Matt Holliday have against Oakland? First he played like crap when he was with the A’s. And then he kicks our asses to the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Uh oh.
Losing a game is bad, but losing not one… not two… not three… but four! players to injury is much, much worse.
Say goodbye to both Mark Ellis and Nomar Garciaparra, who were placed on the disabled list with calf injuries sustained in Tuesday’s game. We’ve seen the Nomar injury coming, but Ellis’ was sudden. [...]

I’ve got to hand it to Bobby Crosby. I was certain he was going to hit into an inning-ending double play when he came up in the top of the 4th with the bases loaded and one out. But he proved me wrong, lacing a 3-RBI triple and bringing the A’s within one after they [...]