2013 Oakland A's Thread...

[Unknownn]

Donaldson reached base more times than Manny Machado & is worth more Wins Above Replacement than Mike Trout.

 

[Unknownn]

Donaldson: One of just 10 hitters in MLB with .500+ SLG vs. fastballs & a .275+ AVG vs offspeed stuff

 

[Unknownn]

Josh Donaldson OPS w/ men on base is 1.069. Only 3 men in baseball are better: Cabrera, Davis, Goldschmidt

 

[REACHTMO]

Its a shame j.d. didnt make it.

its even more confusing how a dude with 20 saves, and a goose egg in the blown save column doesnt make the all stars... All you gotta do is have the name mariano rivera and I guess you automatically get the spot...

 

[Cut-Throat]

Balfour is gonna replace Colon. Colon is gonna start sunday and cant participate in the game... i read they did it on purpose so they could honor more people.

 

[REACHTMO]

hmm. well lealand is a good guy, so it makes sense... but he could have done it with another player... and it still suprises me he didnt give donaldson a spot.

 

[allcalclothing]

all star game=popularity contest

that's all it is, the most deserving will not always make it on that roster. less of a chance for our players to get injured.
I really don't care for the game that much, the hr derby is cool. the home field advantage based on the winning league sucks cack!

 

[T-Rip]

I knew Balfour was solid but god damn 41 saves in a row and set the A's record. The same team that had Eck, wow stats done lie yet hes not an official allstar but nice to hear Colon will give him his spot.

 

[allcalclothing]

good game A's, good defense and offense. hope we can continue like this.
there was a good amount of A's fans out there.

 

[martin_07n]

And people wanted to trade Coco. Ha!

 

[allcalclothing]

And people wanted to trade Coco. Ha!

who were the idiots that wanted that??!
coco is the teams spark plug and team leader he is our QB if this was the NFL..

 

[DubbC415]

i dont give a shit how they swing it. colon was named as a replacement for Bucholz and therefore we didnt even have a legitimate representative. and fuck this every team must have one rep, if you're teams garbage its garbage.

 

[martin_07n]

who were the idiots that wanted that??!
coco is the teams spark plug and team leader he is our QB if this was the NFL..

Some fools on an A's forum on FB and Twitter

 

[martin_07n]

 

[REACHTMO]

speculation is that sunny gray was only called up because after the all star game mlb is gonna hand out their suspensions.

leaves a spot for someone else since otaro went down if its true

anyways b moss player of the game tonight. He made em pay for that bad throw

 

[allcalclothing]

I hope colon doesn't get suspended for the same shit, double jeopardy?

 

[REACHTMO]

for real. he already got 50 games. He didnt piss dirty again, so its fucked up if he gets suspended again

 

[Cut-Throat]

Sonny Gray gonna have some big shoes to fill. We'll miss you Bartolo....

On the upside, at least 6 opposing GM's said that Sonny Gray could come up right now and be the A's beat starter. And let's not give up hope on the best pitcher they got possibly comin back in Brett Anderson...

 

[REACHTMO]

brett anderson is on thin ice. Hopefully he comes back on top of his game.

games back onnnnnnnnn and cespedes hits into an unconventional double play

 

[REACHTMO]

norris got another runner. milone gets the k next pitch