What offensive woes?

by Pucking Insane on Jul 22, 2005 4:17 PM PDT

According to the stats provided by this fine website, the A's have only scored 4 less runs than the Garden Grove Losers of Southern California.

Now in the greater scheme of things this stat means little. However, when the corpulent mouth of John Kruk or the A'S-hating mouth of Reynolds constantly praise the Angels as one of the better offensive teams while at the same time denouncing the A's O, this stat serves as some form of vindication.

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Um ...

... the Angels actually don't have that great an offense.

And I have a bad feeling that we are on the cusp of an offensive trough/regression-to-mean, what with Chavvy and Crotchby coming down with a case of the swingies, Kotsay suffering from bat dropsy, and Kendall's grounders going to shallow short instead of deep short.

Laugh while you can, monkeyboy!

by monkeyball on Jul 22, 2005 4:37 PM PDT reply actions

Well

Moving towards mean for Kendall would be finishing at .300+ for the year. Same goes for Chavvy, hitting mean would have him being red hot in the second-half (as usual). You're probably right about Crosby, though.

by dchu on Jul 22, 2005 5:24 PM PDT up reply actions

dont look now...

but crosby is 2 for 3, Chavez has a hit, and swish is stinging the ball. And its true, the A's have scored 440 runs ( plus 8 so far tonite) on the year, and the Cal Angels have 440... the A's OBP is .334 and the anahines are at .321...

by giocatoli on Jul 22, 2005 6:52 PM PDT reply actions

444 runs that is...

Oops

by giocatoli on Jul 22, 2005 6:52 PM PDT reply actions

11 tonight.

and now 5.5 per game since the break-- and 5.6 per gam over the last 47.

They're fine.

Think of the past few games-- little from their #1, #2 or #4 hitters-- but Swisher, hatteberg, Ellis, Johnson, Kielty, Crosby and particularly Payton all stepped up.

oaktoon

by oaktoon on Jul 22, 2005 8:52 PM PDT reply actions

Since the beginning of June

the A's have scored the most runs in the majors. Which is not surprising considering they're 34-13

"He threw me a pitch I'd never seen before, Sexson said. The umpire asked me what it was, and I said, 'I don't know.' This guy throws ghost pitches.''

by Alien @ Athletics Nation on Jul 22, 2005 9:31 PM PDT reply actions

According to the chart

The A's have now scored more runs than the Angels.

by gdubb925 on Jul 22, 2005 11:28 PM PDT reply actions

one encouraging sign

is that batters other than Crosby, Kotsay and Chavez are getting some key hits and driving in runs: DJ and Swish, for example. Payton is swinging the bat well. And how about Ellis? He looks so much better at the plate this year than in 2003.

by OaklandSi on Jul 23, 2005 5:18 AM PDT reply actions