We all know the A's offense is worse than anemic and that our starting pitching is the only thing keeping the team on life support. I didn't know how good the pitching was until I looked at the hitting numbers for this year for A's and opponents. It's shocking, but when playing the A's the rest of the world hits as bad as our boys do:

        R    H  2B 3B HR  TB RBI  BB   SO  SB  CS   BA  OBP   SLG   OPS
A's  79 171 40  3 12 253  76  77  138  10   5 .229 .308  .339  .647
Ops 75 166 35  3 18 261  72  62  148  11   8 .230 .292  .362  .654

Does this mean our offense doesn't suck as much as it seems to or that our pitching is so good that it makes the other teams look like they suck as bad as we do and is therefore other-worldly and stuff?

Or maybe there's a demon possessing the Coli right now that makes all hit balls jump right into somebody's glove.

Anyhow, check it out.