1/16th in Report: IMHO

Anemic offense. Shut down starting pitching. Already overworked bullpen and a rookie.

So here we are, 10 games into the season and the great AN water cooler is surrounded by the two feuding plains of thought.  From my readings I gather that 75% of AN is harshly writing off our offense as horrible. 24% feel that it is too early to judge our bats as there is still snow and frost every morning throughout many parts of our great country. 1% believe our start is purely based on Shannon Stewarts' throwing arm.

Well simply for the sake of making myself feel better I offer my thoughts:

Is it just me or has it seemed like we have had some real inconsistent plate umps with floating strike zones and high ego trips?

As baseballgirl stated, it is hard to win any games, no matter how lopsided of an early score, after being 1 hit over eight?

We may have a good ranking as far base hits go, but that stat cannot be as good as it sounds when we have two consecutive base hits with two outs, then pop out to third.

Bobby, I know it has been awhile....but come on. Sluggish in the field and sluggish at the plate. I know it must be SO hard to have missed so much time and come back to the bigs with only a hint of spring training, but unless I am mistaken, that is what AAA is for. I think BCrob should be sent down for his own good to get his reps in. Marco gives us a better shot for now.

Garen has really impressed me thus far. Good solid baseball calls,.....mostly. I think it is time for him to start looking to the NL for inspiration though. We have always had SOME bat in the lineup that helped us when men were on with walks, leadoff triples, leadoff doubles or to help us capitalize off of some defensive error, but this year it is different. We need to start bending to small ball. Move the runner over. We have already got a taste of our potential to be a good base knock team, but without question, we will be power difficient. We really need to focus on scoring that 1 run instead of waiting on the big inning that will be so much harder than any of the past 5 years to achieve.

We need Kotsay "back" healthy. Bradley and Kotsay (heathy) give us two solid arms in the OF where we have one now. Come late June, I would love to see a Buck, (I know wrong position) Bradley and Kotsay OF. I feel with BCrob gettin' back to form in Sactown, come July we put out one of the best defensive teams in the bigs to help support one of the best pitching staffs and our two run totals.

Would I love to trade away the farm for a miggy type? Sure, but we all know that isn't going to happen so lets start reshaping this year insted of rebuilding next.

After all is said and done, these type of starts are what make us A's fans have soooo much character. Anf that is why we are better.