Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 30, 2005
A's Plus

The Oakland Athletics appear to have corrected their early season problems and are on a 14-4 streak since June 10. The offense, which was amazingly weak, has scored 101 runs over their last 18 games. Take a look at the batters over this time period. All the regulars save Swisher are getting on base, and Swisher is making up for his lack of OBA with power.

On the pitching side, the young guns of Harden, Blanton and Saarloos have been pretty unhittable, despite the fact that they're not striking out many batters. Zito still is near the bottom of the pack in ERA, but in the last 18 games he's post a 3.55 mark. Teams will take that from their fifth best starter any day.

And the A's finally gained a game on LAnaheim (that's it!) last night. The Angels are 13-5 over the same time period. It may be difficult for Oakland to win the west with the hole they've dug for themselves, but they're only six games out of the wild card.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:21 AM | Team Evaluation | TrackBack (0)
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