The Law of Averages Catching up With the Oakland A’s Hitters
I said it a few times over the coarse of the last couple of months, “What are the chances that every player the A’s have will have their worst season offensively?”. Up until the All-Star break it looked like the chances were good. Just about every player was having the worst season of their career. Recently there has been a big turn around for the A’s and I feel like it’s just the law of averages catching up with them.
Over the first half the season players like David DeJesus, Hideki Matsui, Coco Crisp, Conor Jackson and Cliff Pennington were having one of the worst seasons of their careers, if not the worst. Over the last 7 games there has been a drastic turn around with these players. Each player is hitting over .300 if not better in the last 7 games and they all have at least 1 rbi but most have several.
I can only hope the hitting gets even more contagious. Players like Josh Willingham and Kurt Suzuki need to pick up their averages as well. I think this is too little too late as far as the playoffs go but as my blogging partner mentioned about Matsui’s trade value going up, the same is now true of all those other players. These A’s hitters are becoming more valuable by the minute.
If nothing else thought I am just excited to watch some winning baseball. Since coming back from the break the A’s are 6-4 and their play has become watchable again. Let’s just keep our fingers crossed that this exciting baseball isn’t short lived. I don’t think it will be short lived. I do believe in the law of averages and could not imagine all those players having their worst career numbers in the exact same season on the exact same team.
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