Eric Chavez and the Oakland A’s…

Seriously Man how did the A’s even sign this guy for so much money. Ever since we signed this guy to that stupid contract, the A’s have gone downhill every year. The players have gotten worse and we’ve seen some great players leave the A’s but we felt it was in our best interest to keep this loser. We could have kept Andre Either, Carlos Gonzalez,and Nick Swisher but we traded away those players for guys we thought were gonna help out the team. Ok, the Either trade was good for the short term but long term, Beane made a dumb move on this one cause we knew Either was the future and we traded him away and instead Bradley was with the A’s for a year and a half then he just dissed the team later on. Either now, is one of the league’s best hitters hitting .302 and driving 66 runs for the year and instead we’re stuck with that loser of a third baseman who is just stealing money from the A’s. The Swisher trade, I thought was good cause he was only with the White Sox for a year before he was traded and we got two excellent players in Gonzalez and Sweeney. However, the Carlos Gonzalez was dumb for many reasons including the fact that Matt Holliday wasn’t an Oakland A for very long and Gonzalez is one of the Rockie’s hitting leaders but once again we are stuck with Eric Chavez, wow what a freaking mistake that was Beane. I can’t believe how Chavez is a reflection of today’s team with no power and no potential threats in a lineup where the leading homerun hitter is batting .254 with 12 homeruns and every time he stps up the plate he just grooves one to short for a double play.

I realized that the A’s are the team I love and admire but I just ask myself the question, why are they so bad and miserable at the plate? It’s like our pitching staff goes to the ballpark and they pray that the offense will score at least three runs, but what happens most of the time? The offense doesn’t do squat and we usally leave the bases loaded with either Jack “Bust” or Kurt “I’m Not clutch” Suzuki striking out or grounding into a double play. Our picthers go up against some powerhouses and even then they can’t catch a break. Brett Anderson, Trevor Cahill, Gio Gonzalez, Dallas Braden, and Vin Mazzaro,a rotation that is young and just amazing when they have their stuff going but the offense is just so bad. It all relates back to Eric Chavez and the fact that the A’s missed out on so many opportunities to have potential free agents come to Oakland and play with a team that has a decent enough pitching staff and if you score a few runs every night, you can win a handful of games. But what happens we get stuck with an outfield that will probably (actually most likely) hit less than 20 homeruns whereas most teams that are good have a corner outfielder that can be penciled in to have at least 20 homers, case in point most of these guys that play the outfield can hit 20 homers every year:

Nick Swisher: 22 homers this year

Carlos Quentin: 22 homers this year

Josh Hamilton:24 homers this year

Matt Holliday: 21 homers thiis year

Carlos Gonzalez: 25 homers this year

Those guys right there have power but instead we’re stuck with Rajai Davis who has five homers and Coco Crisp who has four. That is pretty sad right there and only time will tell if the A’s will ever have true power threat. Once Eric Chavez and his six gold gloves go away we can actually begin to start spending money instead of having to worry about a baby that gets hurt every year and he complains about his shoulder and all that. We have the pitching we jsut need some real hitters batting third and fourth as we have guys that are batting third and fourth and on any other team they would be way down at the bottom of the order. Don’t get me wrong, the A’s are my favorite team in sports but it gets frustrating when your players keep getting hurt, ok teams have players that get hurt but for us it’s almost laughable as “day to day” usually means that the guy is usually out for the next year. Here’s a messahe to Beane: Start getting guys that can actually hit because you already have guys that can pitch, go get him some bats, ok peace out everybody good night and good morning: