Oakland A’s Pitching Gives Reason To Be Optimistic About Future
Expectations can be tricky things.
Often times, teams with high expectations fail to measure up, while squads without expectations do better than anticipated. For the 2010 Athletics, the latter is true.
Without any considerable power threat on the roster (Jack Cust started the season at Triple-A), it was hard to imagine the non-explosive A's coming close to .500 record. With two games the left, Oakland is two wins away from finishing 81-81.
No matter what happens the next two nights in Seattle, the Athletics' brass must be pleased with the way the summer played out.
Oakland scored the fourth-fewest runs in the American League, was second-worst in total bases, an...
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