A's Offensive Woes

by 5Tool on May 19, 2009 12:01 AM EDT

I am an A's fan, but this season has been impossible to watch. The offense, which was supposed to be the backbone of the team has been underpreforming epically.

OPS wise, the offensive numbers are as follows from 2008-2009 for the nine most frequently batting players this season:

Ryan Sweeney: 733-643

Kurt Suzuki: 716-828

Jack Cust: 851-794

Bobby Crosby: 645-664

Mark Ellis: 694-503

Orlando Cabrera: 705-584

Jason Giambi: 875-659

Matt Holliday: 947-734

Travis Buck: 723- 545

That's a net loss of 944 between last year and this year, or an average of 104.8 a player, it's like the team gave away an all-star DH. Obviously certain players could have been predicted to preform worse from last year to this year such as Jason Giambi and Matt Holliday, but could a drop of 216/213 OPS really have been predicted, or is Billy Beane loosing his edge?

Anyway, I just wanted to see if anybody thought that this is just some beginning of the season underproduction or if this catastrophe of an offense could have been avoided.

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As a DBacks fan

I sympathize.

The weekend series between the two teams will be painful. It would make for a lot of pitching duels, you know, if we had good pitchers :-)

by paqs on May 19, 2009 9:45 AM EDT reply actions

Is "epically" a real word?

I wouldn’t even say, “failure of epic proportions”. I believe you could find many teams over a forty-game stretch with similar numbers, if you cared to go back through the schedules. It is more glaring right now, because it is the first forty games of the season.

I don’t like it, and I agree it is bad. But forty games is not “epic” anything in MLB.

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by One won lost won on May 23, 2009 7:18 PM EDT reply actions