My Attempt to Heal the Offense
On August 6th, I posted a diary about the A's August Offensive Woes. And then they went out and scored 27 runs in two games. So, in an attempt to reignite the offense, I've posted the same diary, but with updated August stats.
Please, do your best to tell me what an idiot I am, how the sample size is too small, and how we just have to stay positive. The more comments, the better the odds they'll break out of the slump. I'll do my part by eating an entire bucket of chicken before today's game, ala Wade Boggs.
Here's a month-by-month breakdown of our Runs and OPS (AL rank in parenthesis):
April Runs: 89 (12) OPS: .657 (14)
May Runs: 112 (12) OPS: .672 (13)
June Runs: 148 (4) OPS: .820 (4)
July Runs: 155 (1) OPS: .809 (3)
August Runs: 69 (7) OPS: .743 (10)
August1 Runs: 42 (14)
August1=If all runs scored by all teams on August 6th and 7th are removed. Yes, I think it's kind of bad science to remove those, but the drop in rank is clearly significant and August 6th and 7th are clearly outliers. The only bright spot is that the White Sox have only scored 43 runs in the same game set.
Our August OPS has dipped significantly. The main problem? No one is on fire leading this offense. It was Crosby in June. Chavez in early July. Johnson in late July. Who's going to step up?
At least our pitching staff has stayed hot:
April ERA: 3.65 (2) OPSA: .684 (3)
May ERA: 5.43 (13) OPSA: .784 (12)
June ERA: 2.83 (1) OPSA: .629 (1)
July ERA: 3.66 (1) OPSA: .705 (2)
August ERA: 3.73 (4) OPSA: .689 (1)
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Go A's?????
by jrwolf on Aug 17, 2005 6:57 AM PDT reply actions
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How's that?
Actually, the interesting thing is that because the pitching is still hot, August should more closely resemble April than the month that shall not be named. April, while not tremendous, was not as bad...hopefully this stretch won't last a whole month though.
That's the spirit
Points!
Seeing as how we're eliminating outliers...
There are more good hitters than good hurlers, so as long as pitching is good, we'll be fine.

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