Zito, Hudson, Blanton and Harden get ready for Postseason

However, many of these players mentioned did contribute to their team’s success in some positive manner. It’s not like they were all riding the bench and hanging on the fringes of their rosters.

What your point really says, as I interpret it, is that baseball is more of a team game than many other sports where one or two players can make a significant difference (in the regular season). Baseball post-season is where a couple hot players are more likely to have a significant positive impact.

I won’t be happy until the Giants exit the playoffs

Ok show me how wrong I am and show me the OTHER teams with 22 former players going to the playoffs from it. Even if the A’s don’t lead the league in “former players going to the playoffs” and I contend that they do, it might be worth noting that they would be high in that category, or if not please forgive me for wasting your time pointing it out, you must be very busy with the important work of commenting on much more insightful posts.

The A’s had reasons for getting rid of every single person on this guy’s list, and only a portion of them could be legitimately said to have been a key part of their teams making the postseason. The truth of it is you can look all over the league and find people from other teams that didn’t make it, and in some cases those players helped a lot and in others they were fortunate to be on the right teams at the right times.

This whole post comes off as a “Gee, where would we be if we still had all those guys?” kind of thing and assumes incorrectly that we’d be in the playoffs right now with them. What it doesn’t do is acknowledge the moves made around them that have helped us get some of the people we do have now that will be key in helping us get back to the playoffs very soon.

For DFAing a guy who self admittedly rubbed sun block in his eyes and played through a few months of self induced double vision. He even played horrible for the Yokohama Bay stars. I did enjoy the guy when he came up with Cust. I foolishly thought he would way outshine Cust with a MLB career. Anyone who waxes poetic about bonding with his teammate Buck over Yoga sessions together has a fondness in my heart…..Even if they can’t apply sunscreen correctly…..

The poster just has a history of writing things but not commenting on the site. There were a few good posts in the past.

I’m glad he’s going to the postseason for the first time in his career.

Huh. I guess I thought he retired or something.

I don’t know who Jared Burton is.

Part of me still misses Rrrramon.

And I hope Arthur Rhodes gives up a walk-off homer to lose one of the games.

Some might be hurt, some might be left off the roster, my point of this post wasn’t so much that I wanted them all back, just that the A’s have signed a lot of talent over the years, and later lost a lot of talent.

Billy Beane seems to agree with me in this quote from Oaklandathletics.com:

“I think it will allow us to start to plan around some of these guys here from a long-term standpoint. Hopefully, it’s not a revolving door, like it’s been the last decade. Hopefully, we could do some long-term planning, which we really haven’t been able to do. I think it would be pretty invigorating for everybody involved, and I think everybody would sort of be relieved having a direction for the franchise.”