the perpetually insurgent OAKLAND A's (2019 edition)

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This one was too awesome.

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Carlos Santana undercover.

Lead the AL in HRs twice (once was in Boston and the other a strike year).

we don’t disagree, Albert, I was just bad-jokingly referring to the high number of home runs/“asterisk” narrative alluded to by The Cursed

Somebody in our (ILB) fantasy league dropped him right at the start of that stretch, thank you again whomever that was.

You're welcome! His first start of the season was good, but by the end of April he had something like a 6.50 ERA and was unplayable.

Jay Jaffe
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In a short series, anything can happen, and it's not out of the question that they win the AL, but the odds suggest they have to beat both the Astros and Yankees to get to the World Series, which is a very tall order.

It is unlikely, but then again, it happened just last year.

Homer Bailey. Again.

Lots of "Marcus Semien for MVP" press. He's a hair behind Bregman for 2nd in AL bWAR.

I'd prefer WS MVP.

That Mike Trout might not get MVP is absolutely crazy to me.

Who do we think they start in the wild card? Bassit?

Loving seeing Homer having a comeback and finally just being healthy again. If Bailey is getting movement on his fastball, he is pretty hard to hit. He still throws hard. I'd love to see him have one really great year where he puts it all together and top it off with a third no no. That would be classic.