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Our Anonymous League-Best Pitching Staff
As I watched Dan Haren get flipped to the Diamondbacks last winter, and suffered through every rumor that had Rich Harden going one way and Joe Blanton another, I thought back to the basic Moneyball rules of moving toward inequality in markets, effectively buying low and selling high. As we...
2 Innings of Pleasure, 7 of Pain
As A's games go, today's was fairly unusual. Prior to first pitch this afternoon, the A's offense had reached double digits on only 9 occasions so far this year. Similarly, the team's pitching had only given up double figures in runs in 7 contests. In none of those games did both happen. Logically...
Open Game Thread: Game 105 - A's at Seattle (cont.)
So, it turns out those first twenty runs in the game don't count for all that much. After seven full innings, we're in a 10-10 tie ballgame between the A's and Mariners, after Casilla left a few pitches too high in the zone, erasing the A's lead. We're off to the eighth to see if the A's have some...
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