^^love that one, G! great view of that throw...

wtf is up with donaldson? feel like our team needs the allstar break or at least another bat in case of injury/burn out



[Edited on June 15, 2014 at 11:17 PM. Reason : throwfor pg2]

6/15/2014 11:15:53 PM

Donaldson needs two game days off over the next month, preferably against two dominant righties. He's completely exhausted. Darvish is this week and I think we will see Scherzer early July.

6/16/2014 2:39:15 PM

JD has played better the past two games at least. A's now with top record in the majors, and have now srsly differentiated themselves from the pack in terms of RPI:

#1 Oak .534
#2 SF .517

6/19/2014 9:00:39 AM

lol- Reddick with the catch behind a fan @NYM
[image]https://s2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/pZ8fogXLbY_0Qmy6Fl87aw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTMwMDtweW9mZj0yNTtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.pd2upload.com/video.yahoosports.com@15840057-bcdb-385b-a866-542801e0fd19_FULL.jpg[/image]

6/26/2014 3:18:50 PM

^yargh over 30min barrier

6/29/2014 11:43:34 AM

Not an As fan, but this team is amazing. Hope they can represent the AL in the WS this year. Other than the Cards, Oakland is the best run organization in baseball.

6/29/2014 12:22:11 PM

Annnnd another sweep on the road. 51 wins already. Looking good!

6/29/2014 4:09:11 PM

Unbelievable, Frieman gets called up and in his first game hits a winning three run homer.
Not surprised to see Reddick hurt again, he has become Mr. Glass.

6/29/2014 9:03:50 PM

yeah, but srsly we can handle reddick's loss with kyle blanks and billy burns waiting in the wings. what we really need though is starting pitchers.

We were lucky when Pomerantz steeped up to fill the Parker/Griffin void. Now he's done til ~Sept? A's SP ERA has soared recently and I begin to worry about burnout... or at least every game becoming a slugfest here lately. Earlier this year, we were beating teams 5+ to 2- most games...

btw, lol:
http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/6/29/5855072/puppet-enjoys-a-beer-at-the-athletics-marlins-game

[Edited on June 29, 2014 at 9:21 PM. Reason : raleigh fingers puppet]

6/29/2014 9:19:44 PM

Doolittle sucks this year.

6/30/2014 10:37:09 PM

Tigers have dealt with closers blowing MANY a game this year. We deserve this one.

7/1/2014 8:07:39 AM

This was as colossal a regular season loss as it can get, but it's just that, regular season. The lingering issue is that Anaheim is not too far behind and given how well the A's have played it should be more. Seattle is also capable of putting some W's together but I don't expect that to last though it could. This team is on pace to win 100 and no one is comfortable about even winning the division.

Detroit is in a AAA division and they will be there in October and Oakland has some winning to do to even get that far. Any postseason success goes through Detroit, you'd have to be blind to see that. Team needs to face that reality and soon. Has any Oak-Det game been decided in the first 7 innings at all recently?

7/1/2014 9:53:09 AM

^agree 100%, but today's game was decided in the first 7.

Decently impressed with Mills so far given his price tag of $1 though + best record in MLB can't stay down for very long

7/1/2014 10:06:47 PM

*broom*

7/2/2014 4:15:35 PM

meh. 4-4 for a road trip isn't the end of the world, but a 3 game gap between LAA is what's more concerning.

7/2/2014 10:15:12 PM

Yea they are really coming on. Id be concerned because of the angels' willingness to spend

7/2/2014 11:41:51 PM

Seattle too, I guess. The AL West is pretty tough actually.

7/2/2014 11:47:36 PM

not trying to be negative but epstein won the deal. i really like addison russell. If the A's pitchers come back healthy next year......never knew the As to overpay for pitching. Weird trade

7/4/2014 11:25:03 PM

Sure, it's risky, but I think it's a great trade. If the A's ever want to advance past the ALCS, they've got to ramp up their pitching rotation. It's been good for as long as I can remember, but it has to get even better.

[Edited on July 5, 2014 at 12:39 PM. Reason : .]

7/5/2014 12:34:37 PM

I think it's a great trade. You can't keep playing for the future and Josh Reddick's bat is only going to get you so far and definitely not a World Series title.

7/5/2014 5:50:52 PM

Hate to see the prospects go because we always need hitting, but I am o.k. With this trade. We are in a good position this year and Beane decided to go for it. With pomeranz being dumb and breaking his hand, and gray and Chavez starting to struggle some, hopefully this gives us a goo pd shot in the arm.

7/5/2014 8:52:31 PM

Now maybe Samardjizujushah can get some more wins for my fantasy team

7/5/2014 10:59:22 PM

6 All Star players

7/7/2014 2:45:32 AM

the expectations begin

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/49317/as-clearly-now-the-world-series-favorite

7/7/2014 3:27:56 PM

Big sweep of Toronto to get back on track after the Doolittle catastrophe which led to the bad week in Detroit. The A's now have a three headed October monster in Gray-Kaz-Shark that can be in the same conversation as Ver-Scher-Anibal. Of course Anaheim isn't going anywhere with their payroll. Also nice to have Pomeranz and Chaves to take the place of any of these three if worse comes to worse. Don't know much about Hamel.

7/7/2014 7:08:46 PM

Quote :

"Of course Anaheim isn't going anywhere with their payroll."

dude they are clearly the second best team in baseball - if not the best here recently. I really think that we could still easily end up a wildcard if the Angels continue to explode. They would dominate any other division, much less having to split victories with us and SEA all year. In fact, ALWest is so dominant it could srsly take both wildcards.

I could actually see SEA probably playing spoiler vs. the A's or the Angels very late in the season as they make a very legit push for that final wildcard spot as 3rd in the division...

7/7/2014 8:38:28 PM

Was hoping for a sweep against the Gnats, but I will take it

7/10/2014 6:47:22 PM

Vegas is already penciling Oakland in to win AL West, -500. Angels, +200. Didn't think it would be that convincing at this point.

7/11/2014 9:30:59 AM

srsly, 1.5 games behind us is nothing

even if we do win the AL West again, we're going to have to get by the Halos and/or the Tigers in the playoffs somehow. They are such starpower-heavy clubs, one or two key late season injuries could punch our ticket to the WS. If either of these clubs stays at practically 100% health like they are now, then its going to be a nailbiter...

7/14/2014 8:03:39 PM

take a look at LAA's remaining schedule and then take a look at Oakland's. We should be fine.

7/14/2014 8:11:26 PM

ah, you are correct sir. quick search reveals we have 2nd best remaining SOS differential vs the average, while LAA comes in slightly tougher than avg. But look at the differential +/- 1.2 games? A couple fluke losses changes everything....

7/14/2014 8:47:17 PM

I know it's still early, but this is by far the best A's team we've had in the past three seasons. 2012 had hitting and 'magic', last year was really solid pitching/defense, this year everything (aside from some blown saves) seems to be coming together more cohesively. I'm honestly not seeing a better opportunity to make a WS run. 2014 or bust. And fucking Cespedes wins the HR derby again.

7/15/2014 1:12:19 AM

^completely agree.

Quote :

"They figured out they are in the business of winning."

Really want to get a custom A's Beane jersey. Beating the $/media odds so consistently (despite also making some bad moves) is probably the most amazing part. I wonder if we can hire him at NC State?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenkrogue/2014/07/15/brad-pitt-oakland-athletics-and-moneyball-still-the-model-for-change-management-business-transformation-and-predictive-analytics/


Yeah Cespy! Back to back A's HR derby champ - wow I'm just glad he only hit 3 in round1 so that JD got to at least be in a swingoff. Ya gotta wonder if he will ever have another year quite this good again. But you know this won't be Cespy's last derby (probably many without the A's ahead once his price balloons).


[Edited on July 15, 2014 at 10:27 PM. Reason : gif ]

7/15/2014 10:25:36 PM

His price won't go up until he can consistently bat .270. .248 with a cannon in left is nice, but not going to get a Yanks/Boston type deal anytime soon I don't think. Havn't looked at his current deal, but I think hes at 8-9m through 2016. He's overpaid based off that.

[Edited on July 16, 2014 at 10:47 AM. Reason : .]

7/16/2014 10:46:46 AM

Gotta love seeing JD getting back into clutch form like he had 2 months ago. But srsly smarzjd doesn't seem to be living up to the hype so far

7/19/2014 12:34:33 PM

He's pitched two games and we've won them both. The O's are really good too. I'll take it.

7/19/2014 2:13:07 PM

^He took an L vs king Felix already. Got bailed out for the L last night vs whoever BAL threw at us is all. At least LAA has to face Felix tonight :-)

7/19/2014 3:33:18 PM

boooooooooooo!!! you don't need to beat the O's again

7/19/2014 4:27:41 PM

^^ ah you're right. Thought it was Hammel that already had two Ls

^ oh yes we do. A sweep against the O's would be great considering how hot LAA is right now.

7/19/2014 5:21:39 PM

Add Hammel to the "not as good as hyped" list from Beant's big trade Yeah maybe the O's being his former team knew how to hit him in that 1st inning, but he hasn't looked better than our prior alternatives yet, imho

Hammel trade confidence level -1.2
Smardzj trade confidence level -0.6

We should srsly bring back Milone and Pomeranz to put some job security heat on these guys. They aren't pitching to easy NL lineups anymore...

7/20/2014 11:49:58 AM

Hammel is garbage. Why Johnson even plays anymore is beyond a mystery to me. It was nice to see some fight in the A's last night though. Down 7-1 early, but they came back and never felt completely out of it until that ninth inning homer. Oh well. At least LAA lost to the M's too. Looking forward to another Sonny afternoon at O.co in a bit

[Edited on July 20, 2014 at 12:23 PM. Reason : .]

7/20/2014 12:22:38 PM

Is Pomeranz going to come back and take Hammel's spot? Milone is obviously better than Hammel too.....Out of the ten teams outside of the AL West in the AL, only two have a higher winning % than the 3rd place team in the AL West.

7/21/2014 8:53:32 AM

^crazy how good ALwest is this year after being relatively weak vs. others in prior years (especially ALeast).

Reading the blogs, etc - sounds like Pomeranz could be ready towards the end of this month to pitch again in minors. Milone is already healthy and could be called up anytime to replace Hammels. There is also a chance we could have Jarrod Parker back for the playoffs if his TG surgery recovery goes well

7/21/2014 1:21:18 PM

I really hope Hammel is just a bargaining chip for another trade (read: 2nd baseman)

7/21/2014 2:27:51 PM

...and there it goes. FOX sports reporting Milone wants to be traded

7/21/2014 5:59:09 PM

^ He should be. He's a major league pitcher and would be a lot of team's third man in the rotation. Hammel should get one more start and then things need to be reevaluated. Trading Hammel for a second baseman doesn't help Milone out unless that involves Sogard being sent down. Vogt is also playing lights out, can't send him down. Reddick called up today, Parrino down. Callaspo also will be back soon. Don't know who's getting sent down when that happens, Frieman?

7/22/2014 4:50:48 PM

eh, just because he 'wants' to get traded, doesn't mean it's actually going to happen. the A's were wise to send him down to AAA and weigh their options. Milone is great at home, but not so much on the road.

[Edited on July 22, 2014 at 7:48 PM. Reason : .]

7/22/2014 7:48:04 PM

I mean, Hammels is gone after this season. So he better pan out... we are getting Griffin and Parker back next year also

Beane has just gotta have another deal in the works...

7/22/2014 10:22:24 PM

2nd baseman you say? Darwin Barney is available.

7/23/2014 12:37:22 AM

Last night was a total shit show.

7/23/2014 11:20:33 AM