I turned on today’s game in the bottom of the 4th inning. The A’s were just about to score two unearned runs off James Shields and take a 4-0 lead. I thought, this is cool. The A’s look like they’re going to win this series.
And yes, I noticed when Dallas Braden took the hill in [...]

Well the title of this blog post would seem a lot more positive if it was written two years ago, but instead Rich Harden pitched for the other team and dominated the A’s on Monday.
$6.5 million for one year for Harden, or $10 million for one year of Ben Sheets? Hmmm…
However it seems very possible, [...]

Yesterday afternoon I sat down and turned on the first A’s game I was able to watch since the final game of the Orioles series. It was in the third inning, and the A’s were already down 6-0.
Ben Sheets was ugly out there. He was throwing straight, batting practice fastballs and getting hammered. And judging [...]

So Joe Blanton doesn’t get the chance to remain the A’s #1 starter going into the second half, as he’s now a Philadelphia Phillie.
I’m a lot more OK with this one right off the bat than I was with the Rich Harden trade. I mean really, the A’s do not get worse by handing the [...]

…you’ve got a friend in Dave Cameron.
Well, at least he likes the Harden trade for the A’s.
Fifteen runs, or roughly 1.5 wins – that’s the entirety of downgrading from Rich Harden to Sean Gallagher, based on the assumptions I made above. If you don’t like the numbers I used, feel free to plug in your [...]