What looked to be a probable win through the first seven innings turned into an ugly loss, and one that raises one glaring question.
When you made a defensive change in the eighth inning, why didn’t you take the guy who has six Gold Gloves at third instead of the guy who just started learning to [...]

Let me remind you that in the past two weeks, the A’s haven’ t traded a single hitter. Sure, they’ve traded away three pitchers, but all the position players that were on those “contending” Oakland A’s of April and May 2008 are still in green and gold.
OK, so some of them are on the DL. [...]

It was an interesting weekend for the A’s, of which I was only able to watch a couple innings of Saturday’s game. So I didn’t get to see Chavez play third, I didn’t get to see the 9-run seventh inning yesterday, and I only got to see Carlos Gonzalez bat once. Maybe I’ll have more [...]

1. What are the A’s going to do with Daric Barton? Should they do anything with Daric or just let him play? This has been brought up on The Drumbeat and Rotoworld, as Daric is in a 7-for-55 (.127) slump.
My call: Eric Chavez will be back in a week or sooner. If Daric is still [...]