The Official Oakland Athletics 2014 Season Thread

Green & Gold Heart · 03-31-2014, 12:09 PM

Here we go!

LETS GO OAKLAND!

Green & Gold Heart · 03-31-2014, 12:11 PM

Notable roster news:

Out for the season: Jarrod Parker
Beginning the season on the DL: Ryan Cook, A.J. Griffin, Craig Gentry
Made the team: Sam Fuld, Daric Barton

Green & Gold Heart · 03-31-2014, 12:13 PM

Current rotation in order:

Sonny Gray
Scott Kazmir
Dan Straily
Jesse Chavez
Tommy Milone

Doesn't scream AL WEST CHAMPS at you but we should know by now not to doubt them.

RchW · 03-31-2014, 02:34 PM

SI has the A's losing the WS to the Nats. Good teams they are but WS?

Green & Gold Heart · 03-31-2014, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by RchW

SI has the A's losing the WS to the Nats. Good teams they are but WS?

More surprising teams have gone to & won the WS. Playoffs are a crapshoot. If they both get in, it could happen.

RchW · 03-31-2014, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Green & Gold Heart

More surprising teams have gone to & won the WS. Playoffs are a crapshoot. If they both get in, it could happen.

I think the A's have a better chance than the Nats because I'm not convinced that the Tigers are better than last year. If someone other than Detroit or the Red Sox makes the ALCS then the A's look good IMO.

The Nats will likely have to go through LA/STL maybe both in the NL. I don't see that happening unless something blows up.

mirrf · 03-31-2014, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Green & Gold Heart

Notable roster news:

Out for the season: Jarrod Parker
Beginning the season on the DL: Ryan Cook, A.J. Griffin, Craig Gentry
Made the team: Sam Fuld, Daric Barton

I'm mildly surprised that Barton made it. He's reminds me of the guy who doesn't go home after the party is over.

Lafayette53 · 03-31-2014, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by mirrf

I'm mildly surprised that Barton made it. He's reminds me of the guy who doesn't go home after the party is over.

If you had told me two years ago that Daric Barton would still be on the A's in 2014 I'd have given you 4-1 odds on a bet.

I guess he exists in that weird zone where no other team wants to take him, but there's still worse options in the org as an injury replacement.

Green & Gold Heart · 04-01-2014, 10:31 AM

Well, the A's always lose on Opening Day. 10 consecutive years and counting, an MLB record.

Green & Gold Heart · 04-01-2014, 10:06 PM

Tonight's game has been rained out. Day-night doubleheader tomorrow!

Green & Gold Heart · 04-02-2014, 07:28 AM

The last time an A's game was rained out in Oakland was in 1998!

Rotation that year was Kenny Rogers, Tom Candiotti, Jimmy Haynes, Mike Oquist, Blake Stein.

mirrf · 04-02-2014, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Green & Gold Heart

The last time an A's game was rained out in Oakland was in 1998!

Rotation that year was Kenny Rogers, Tom Candiotti, Jimmy Haynes, Mike Oquist, Blake Stein.

Ah, the daunted rotation of Haynes, Oquist, & Stein. Jeez. I remember Stein. He was the guy we got for Mark McGwire, right?

Green & Gold Heart · 04-02-2014, 10:52 AM

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Ah, the daunted rotation of Haynes, Oquist, & Stein. Jeez. I remember Stein. He was the guy we got for Mark McGwire, right?

One of them, yes.

July 31, 1997: Traded by the Oakland Athletics to the St. Louis Cardinals for Eric Ludwick, T.J. Mathews and Blake Stein.

mirrf · 04-02-2014, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Green & Gold Heart

One of them, yes.

July 31, 1997: Traded by the Oakland Athletics to the St. Louis Cardinals for Eric Ludwick, T.J. Mathews and Blake Stein.

For some reason I remember him being the "key getback" from the Cards. He was a young "talented" starting pitcher, while Mathews was a fairly average middle reliever. I don't remember Ludwick at all.

Green & Gold Heart · 04-02-2014, 02:50 PM

We had a lot of young "talented" starters in the 90s, like Ariel Prieto and Todd Van Poppel.

mirrf · 04-02-2014, 04:27 PM

At least we didn't have to wait long in our second game to score a run.

Green & Gold Heart · 04-02-2014, 04:49 PM

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At least we didn't have to wait long in our second game to score a run.

Alberto Callaspo just crushed one to right as I read your post.

rudel.dietrich · 04-02-2014, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Green & Gold Heart

The last time an A's game was rained out in Oakland was in 1998!

As someone who does not know the Bay Area that well, this sounds near impossible. I could understand if it were LA or Arizona.
I know the Bay Area has frequent clouds and showers, or is the 'rainy' season mostly in the winter?

Green & Gold Heart · 04-02-2014, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich

As someone who does not know the Bay Area that well, this sounds near impossible. I could understand if it were LA or Arizona.
I know the Bay Area has frequent clouds and showers, or is the 'rainy' season mostly in the winter?

The people who live there currently have better knowledge than I do but that's how I remember it. It pretty much never rains in the summer, and it seems like the rain it does get in the spring/fall are smaller storms that don't wipe out entire evenings, just delay games.

Green & Gold Heart · 04-02-2014, 07:45 PM

Kazmir signing lookin' good.

03-31-2014, 12:09 PM	#1
Green & Gold Heart Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 5,242	The Official Oakland Athletics 2014 Season Thread Here we go! LETS GO OAKLAND!

03-31-2014, 12:11 PM	#2
Green & Gold Heart Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 5,242	Notable roster news: Out for the season: Jarrod Parker Beginning the season on the DL: Ryan Cook, A.J. Griffin, Craig Gentry Made the team: Sam Fuld, Daric Barton

03-31-2014, 02:34 PM	#4
RchW Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Toronto ON by way of Glasgow UK Posts: 15,629	SI has the A's losing the WS to the Nats. Good teams they are but WS? __________________ Cheers RichW If you’re looking for a good cause to donate money to please consider a Donation to Parkinson’s Canada. It may help me have a better future and if not me, someone else. Thanks. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Frank Wilhoit

03-31-2014, 12:13 PM	#3
Green & Gold Heart Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 5,242	Current rotation in order: Sonny Gray Scott Kazmir Dan Straily Jesse Chavez Tommy Milone Doesn't scream AL WEST CHAMPS at you but we should know by now not to doubt them.

04-01-2014, 10:31 AM	#9
Green & Gold Heart Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 5,242	Well, the A's always lose on Opening Day. 10 consecutive years and counting, an MLB record.

04-01-2014, 10:06 PM	#10
Green & Gold Heart Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 5,242	Tonight's game has been rained out. Day-night doubleheader tomorrow!

04-02-2014, 07:28 AM	#11
Green & Gold Heart Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 5,242	The last time an A's game was rained out in Oakland was in 1998! Rotation that year was Kenny Rogers, Tom Candiotti, Jimmy Haynes, Mike Oquist, Blake Stein.

04-02-2014, 02:50 PM	#15
Green & Gold Heart Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 5,242	We had a lot of young "talented" starters in the 90s, like Ariel Prieto and Todd Van Poppel.

04-02-2014, 07:45 PM	#20
Green & Gold Heart Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 5,242	Kazmir signing lookin' good.