I know I've been terrible about blogging lately, its a bad excuse but I've been traveling and works been going a little crazy so I haven't had the time. But I am definitely making a concerted effort to get back on the wagon starting now.
Your 2008 Oakland A's: 13-9, tied for first in the AL West with an AL leading 3.24 Team ERA. And that's with the Rich "my last name is ironic considering my overall fragile health" Harden and the Duke combining for a total of three starts. Dana Eveland and Greg Smith have been great, but looking at the stats today I realized that the A's pitching staff has been led by three unsung heroes, all of them middle relievers. Their stats:
Andrew Brown: 12 IP, 8K's, 0ER, 0.75 WHIP
Joey Devine: 71/3 IP, 5K's, oER, 0.95 WHIP
The pitcher formally known as Jairo Garcia (Santiago Casilla): 11IP, 14K's, oER, 0.82.
That's a grand total of 30 1/3 scoreless innings out of a total of 200. Right. On.
Do I think the success is going to last? Probably not, because the young starters are going to start to get shelled as the season goes on and the weather warms up. The offense is still struggling, combining for an anemic .253/.334/.693 line: if the A's want to stay in the AL West race they're going to have to start to hit.
And who knows, maybe this man will be the answer to our problems: according to Yahoo Sports the Big Hurt might be heading back to Oakland after being waived by the Blue Jays last week. Between him and Mike Sweeney the A's should be able to produce a DH who can can get on base at a decent clip and hit 25-30 home runs.
Barry Zito's WHIP: 1.79
Giants team batting average: .244
Interestingly, the spread between these numbers is 65, which is probably a pretty good figure for the o/u on Giants wins this season.
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