Showing posts with label "Oakland A's". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Oakland A's". Show all posts

Friday, August 10, 2007

The Legend Of Jack Cust

Worth reading: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/albert_chen/07/31/jack.cust0806/

Tonight is a good night to post this; Cust hit a grand slam and drove in seven of Oakland's 16 runs (vs. Detroit's 10).

He's got 17 home runs (leading the A's) in 240 ABs for just over 14 ABs/HR, which doesn't compare to A-Rod's 11.6 ABs/HR (Ryan Howard's is under 11!), but it's up there. (I wish I had time to write a program to figure out what percentile that puts him at.)

Friday, May 4, 2007

The A's April

The Athletics Nation blog has an interesting summary of the Oakland A's April. I wonder if any other team has had as many injuries to key players; Yankees and Jays fans may be feeling sorry for themselves, but I think the A's have it worse.

I "watched" the last two games against the Red Sox--on TiVo after the kids were all in bed. The A's played quite well in both. I almost woke up the kids groaning on the play where Piazza was injured.