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I’ve listened/watched to almost 80% of all A’s this year from Tokyo to the last game against Texas, and here’s my take on why the A’s are a better value team to take at +140 for the series.
Series aren’t won on paper, but on the field.
On paper the Tigers looks great, I won’t go into detail but they have the best pitcher Verland and MVP Cabera. What do the A’s have? The A’s have 2 different line ups, one for lefty’s and 1 for Righty pitchers. Melvin likes to swap between Johnny Gomes/Seth Smith, Brandon Moss/Chris Carter. These 4 guys stats sheet doesn’t look great but the amount of HR’s they hit will shock you. The A’s 1-8 hitters all can hit the ball out of the park, the A’s has the most HR’s since the All Star break(even more than the Yankees). But they lead the league in strikeouts, well if you are swinging for the fences they tend to strikeout. Chili Davis their hitting coach has done an awesome job with these rookies. Cesspedes, Reddick, Donaldson, Kottaras, Norris, Drew all has the power to hit the ball out of the park. Remember they play half their games at the Oakland Coliseum with the heavy fog it’s not easy to hit one out, just look at the last 4 years HR are a commodity in the O. co.
Everyone knows A’s have all rookie starters and they’ve been doing well to keep the score down till we get to the other teams bullpen. A’s have good bullpen not great, although the last week they’ve been great. We’re suppose to get Anderson back for game 3.
The A’s have 14 walk offs, all from different guys. This is one of the things that can’t be quantify on paper, this team has no MVPs. Every night a different person comes up big for the A’s, they have a ton of heart. They believe they are in every game even down by big margins they believe they can come back, they have no fear.
They’ve been playing playoff baseball for the entire month of September, look at their brutal September schedule. They played Angels(home), Seattle(away), Angels(away), Orioles(home), Detriot(away), Yankees(away), Rangers(away), Seattle(home), Rangers(home).
There’s no quit in this team, after being sweep by the Angels in early September at home they had to face Felix Hernandez on the road the next game. What did they do? They put up 5 earn runs against him. Then they faced Vargas took him out too to sweep Seattle. Then they take 3 out of 4 from the Angels at home who was arguably the hottest team then. Then they played the Orioles who were red hot winning 8 of last 10, they took 2 of 3 from them.
Then they went to Detroit......No Coco Crisp due to Red Eye, infact they lost Crisp until that last series at home against Texas. Coco Crisp is the A’s igniter, without him it’s not the same. Ander got hurt after pitching 2 innings, they lost first 2 games and salvage the 3rd by putting up 12 runs against the Tigers. At Yankee stadium, Parker pitched a 1 run game into the 8th. Moss tied it in the bottom of the 9th to spoil CC’s shutout. Game 2 they played 16 innings putting up 4 runs, Melvin thought 4 runs was safe and put out AAA pitchers which the Yankees came back and won. Yet they salvaged the last game, this team doesn’t quit. The rest of the way everyone knows they split with Texas, sweept Seattle, and Sweep Texas to win AL west.
On paper Detroit looks unbeatable because of starting pitching and MVP Cabera, Fielder. In reality the A’s lead in HR’s after all star game, Verlander is great but 1 mistake pitch and it’s 3-0 A’s; see Felix Hernandez. This formula has been working from All Star game to now, get one base with hits or walks then hit HR’s. A’s also have speed, they can walk, steal 2nd and 3rd and score on a fly ball.
A’s post all star game, leads the league in Runs Scored, HR, Doubles. Leads all 5 playoff teams with SB, 82% on SB.
There’s no value with Tigers at -160 for the series, the value is on the red hot A’s. The line should really be a pick em toss up.
Series aren’t won on paper, but on the field.
On paper the Tigers looks great, I won’t go into detail but they have the best pitcher Verland and MVP Cabera. What do the A’s have? The A’s have 2 different line ups, one for lefty’s and 1 for Righty pitchers. Melvin likes to swap between Johnny Gomes/Seth Smith, Brandon Moss/Chris Carter. These 4 guys stats sheet doesn’t look great but the amount of HR’s they hit will shock you. The A’s 1-8 hitters all can hit the ball out of the park, the A’s has the most HR’s since the All Star break(even more than the Yankees). But they lead the league in strikeouts, well if you are swinging for the fences they tend to strikeout. Chili Davis their hitting coach has done an awesome job with these rookies. Cesspedes, Reddick, Donaldson, Kottaras, Norris, Drew all has the power to hit the ball out of the park. Remember they play half their games at the Oakland Coliseum with the heavy fog it’s not easy to hit one out, just look at the last 4 years HR are a commodity in the O. co.
Everyone knows A’s have all rookie starters and they’ve been doing well to keep the score down till we get to the other teams bullpen. A’s have good bullpen not great, although the last week they’ve been great. We’re suppose to get Anderson back for game 3.
The A’s have 14 walk offs, all from different guys. This is one of the things that can’t be quantify on paper, this team has no MVPs. Every night a different person comes up big for the A’s, they have a ton of heart. They believe they are in every game even down by big margins they believe they can come back, they have no fear.
They’ve been playing playoff baseball for the entire month of September, look at their brutal September schedule. They played Angels(home), Seattle(away), Angels(away), Orioles(home), Detriot(away), Yankees(away), Rangers(away), Seattle(home), Rangers(home).
There’s no quit in this team, after being sweep by the Angels in early September at home they had to face Felix Hernandez on the road the next game. What did they do? They put up 5 earn runs against him. Then they faced Vargas took him out too to sweep Seattle. Then they take 3 out of 4 from the Angels at home who was arguably the hottest team then. Then they played the Orioles who were red hot winning 8 of last 10, they took 2 of 3 from them.
Then they went to Detroit......No Coco Crisp due to Red Eye, infact they lost Crisp until that last series at home against Texas. Coco Crisp is the A’s igniter, without him it’s not the same. Ander got hurt after pitching 2 innings, they lost first 2 games and salvage the 3rd by putting up 12 runs against the Tigers. At Yankee stadium, Parker pitched a 1 run game into the 8th. Moss tied it in the bottom of the 9th to spoil CC’s shutout. Game 2 they played 16 innings putting up 4 runs, Melvin thought 4 runs was safe and put out AAA pitchers which the Yankees came back and won. Yet they salvaged the last game, this team doesn’t quit. The rest of the way everyone knows they split with Texas, sweept Seattle, and Sweep Texas to win AL west.
On paper Detroit looks unbeatable because of starting pitching and MVP Cabera, Fielder. In reality the A’s lead in HR’s after all star game, Verlander is great but 1 mistake pitch and it’s 3-0 A’s; see Felix Hernandez. This formula has been working from All Star game to now, get one base with hits or walks then hit HR’s. A’s also have speed, they can walk, steal 2nd and 3rd and score on a fly ball.
A’s post all star game, leads the league in Runs Scored, HR, Doubles. Leads all 5 playoff teams with SB, 82% on SB.
There’s no value with Tigers at -160 for the series, the value is on the red hot A’s. The line should really be a pick em toss up.
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