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 [...]

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 [...]

Well I guess when the A’s aren’t playing the Mariners, they still can’t score many runs.
They scratched across one run off Justin Verlander, which wasn’t nearly enough to get Dallas Braden a win. Braden’s 2 earned runs in six innings ended up getting him a loss.
Coco Crisp is tearing it up in his minor league [...]

That’s BS as in blown save, of which the A’s had not one, not two, but THREE last night and still managed to win!
That is certainly not perfection but it counts just the same in the win column.
First it was Brad Ziegler in the 8th. The A’s were up 3-2 and he hit Michael Young [...]

I was looking forward to today’s game for a couple of reasons: 1) Dallas Braden was on the hill, and 2) some new guys were going to get their first Oakland A’s starts.
First, let’s talk about Dallas Braden. He wasn’t as stellar as he was against the Mariners on Tuesday, but I love the way [...]