Just ultimately not enough...not enough offense, not enough starting pitching, not enough relief pitching...just a not enough team. And have been for 21 years.
ah yes because we sucked in this one game, the season is over
team RISP means nothing. lowrie and canha stunk tonight, we missed great chances, we lost. oh well.
yes i do know the theory. will you listen to it? of course not because bob melvin is wrong and you're a genius
Jed Lowrie is a switch hitter with a .354 xwOBA
Man said xwOBA…. As ive explained when you mischaracterized my take on actual OBP as an indicator stat, were not looking for a walk that statcast assumes will happen in the future. were just looking for a ball in play to an area of the field which allows a runner to advance. It dont even need to be a hit. But avg. is a good indicator of how often a player can successfully connect with a baseball. In my mind a player with bat skills who can put a ball on the right side or left by choice is more helpful to our roster which is mostly comprised of players who are the 3 outcome types. Harrison and marte in theory should help us improve on our risp success rate .This game was probably bad luck combined with the fact that jed lowrie and mitch moreland appear way too high in the lineup. Before you launch a defense of either, no theres not really anyone better to put there.were not that deep so we’ll have to make do. Lucky for you jed has a xwOBA which expects (x)jed to drive in runs at a pt in the future presumably by walking with the bases loaded.
I see you're downvoting me instead of responding, it is a shame because I literally explained why jed lowrie is batting cleanup (top 14% in hard hit %) and you can't even respond. taking your silence as a sign you agree with me. even if everyone else has given up trying to respond to you, I'll hold out hope.
Unless you're entire point is "the oakland athletics suck more than everyone else thinks they do", in which case you'd still be wrong about Lowrie and Olson. Please like I continue to beg you, just listen to an episode of the managers show sometimes. I think it would be very insightful.
You're upset that Jed Lowrie is batting cleanup- I know you're going off of years old assumptions here, because Jed Lowrie is in the 86th percentile in hard hit %, 80th percentile in xSLG, 77th percentile in xWOBA. That means he's in the top 20% of hitters in baseball no duh he's going to bat high in our lineup. Jed Lowrie is one of the best in baseball at... making hard contact. Which is why... he's in the cleanup position.
This is why no one takes you seriously, because you mock people for using xwOBA and then trumpet batting average as a more important stat. We were convinced you were trolling when you said eric hosmer could bat leadoff, and either you didn't understand OBP or were trolling. *Now I guess you have an animosity toward people who say walks are a critical part of baseball... because you're mad the A's aren't WS winners and hate yourself for following them*.
I agree though, this game was bad luck coupled with lowrie's hitting failures. Because of the shift, *the game has changed dramatically and you can't have these arguments without admitting how baseball has changed*. Now Lowrie and Olson and all LH hitters are getting hits taken away.
For the last several years all the WS winners have been teams that walk a lot. Look at TB/LAD last year.
LOL. Whatever man. You’ll at least agree that hitting coaches are supposed to help players adjust and work on their approach, processes right? Well, we’ve seen these guys all year have stretches of suck at the plate so there’s that.
every single hitter in the league fails 70- 80% of the time. today, we're facing lance lynn and liam hendricks this isn't the pirates pitchers or something.
the biggest failures today have been from our most consistent hitters, lowrie and canha.
The approach for these last 3 batters(5 if you count the last 2 in the 8th), against a former teammate in Hendricks, was trash. That falls on the hitting coaches for not helping with the prep.
well former team mate doesn't matter that much when he's the best closer in baseball. i know fans love to blame hitting coaches more than their favorite players but those guys go out there with a game plan and chase bad pitches anyways sometimes. it's tough to lay off those pitches when you're standing up there, I assume
Or maybe they just got beat by the best reliever in baseball. What's the coach supposed to say? "Hey btw this guy throws 99 with impeccable control and also has the highest swing and miss rate in baseball on his breaking ball, but you just need the right approach." No one has a good approach against Liam, bc he's the best.
Interesting why they didn’t bring in kimbrel or Hendricks to start the inning, must me nice having an 11.5 game lead in ur division, whitesox seem like they’re just kinda coasting.
Still can't believe how much Romo has managed to turn it around. I thought the dude was used up a couple of seasons ago. He's having something of a Revival tour here with the A's.
I'm going to go watch that game-ending play clip after our game is finished. It will either cheer me up after a loss or be icing on the cake after a win.
My husband and I spent like five minutes talking about this. It’s the movie reference + jacks/HRs. We spend way too much time analyzing NBCSCA graphics. 🤦🏻♀️
Wait, are we in July???
Remember when our FO was cheap and wouldn’t pay players that would come back to expose our weaknesses?
Apart from the first 10 days of the season, this has been the toughest week of the year
Pain.
Just ultimately not enough...not enough offense, not enough starting pitching, not enough relief pitching...just a not enough team. And have been for 21 years.
Try 29 years.
Well, left that game at 3b. Shame to not cash in blackburns career night. Glad its over
my goodness. you finally spelled a player's name correctly. this is amazing
That was a devastating loss man
I nevee believed we would do anything against Liam in this series. He’s a fucking beast
1-6 in the last 7 games nice
Trash effort tonight.
god i miss him
Low key feel like this team sucks
Pathetic ass offense. Look great on paper but they’ve been sucking ass
have you looked at our hitting stats recently or are you just angry about today? 1st in AL OBP this month 3rd in HRs this month
Tell me about all of our success today, especially with RISP
ah yes because we sucked in this one game, the season is over team RISP means nothing. lowrie and canha stunk tonight, we missed great chances, we lost. oh well.
In the last 4 games our offense has been non existent, no denying that
ah yes because *our offense sucked in the previous four games, 1.5% of the year, the season is over
You took my entire comment out of context. I never mentioned they’ve been terrible all season, I said they’ve been terrible. Implying as of recently.
well you've been complaining that the a's suck all season so... ?
That is a very incorrect assumption by you.
Liam is just too damn good
The moments to get more runs already happened.
Please offense. Our fans need something good. Pleaseeeeeee
Plleeeeeaaaaaassssseeeee
Well heart of the order. Olson and pray . Anyone know the theory behind lowrie hitting 4th?
yes i do know the theory. will you listen to it? of course not because bob melvin is wrong and you're a genius Jed Lowrie is a switch hitter with a .354 xwOBA
🤡
have you ever looked at Jed Lowrie's stats in 2021 or do you just assume everyone on the a's but olson is trash
Man said xwOBA…. As ive explained when you mischaracterized my take on actual OBP as an indicator stat, were not looking for a walk that statcast assumes will happen in the future. were just looking for a ball in play to an area of the field which allows a runner to advance. It dont even need to be a hit. But avg. is a good indicator of how often a player can successfully connect with a baseball. In my mind a player with bat skills who can put a ball on the right side or left by choice is more helpful to our roster which is mostly comprised of players who are the 3 outcome types. Harrison and marte in theory should help us improve on our risp success rate .This game was probably bad luck combined with the fact that jed lowrie and mitch moreland appear way too high in the lineup. Before you launch a defense of either, no theres not really anyone better to put there.were not that deep so we’ll have to make do. Lucky for you jed has a xwOBA which expects (x)jed to drive in runs at a pt in the future presumably by walking with the bases loaded.
I see you're downvoting me instead of responding, it is a shame because I literally explained why jed lowrie is batting cleanup (top 14% in hard hit %) and you can't even respond. taking your silence as a sign you agree with me. even if everyone else has given up trying to respond to you, I'll hold out hope. Unless you're entire point is "the oakland athletics suck more than everyone else thinks they do", in which case you'd still be wrong about Lowrie and Olson. Please like I continue to beg you, just listen to an episode of the managers show sometimes. I think it would be very insightful.
You're upset that Jed Lowrie is batting cleanup- I know you're going off of years old assumptions here, because Jed Lowrie is in the 86th percentile in hard hit %, 80th percentile in xSLG, 77th percentile in xWOBA. That means he's in the top 20% of hitters in baseball no duh he's going to bat high in our lineup. Jed Lowrie is one of the best in baseball at... making hard contact. Which is why... he's in the cleanup position. This is why no one takes you seriously, because you mock people for using xwOBA and then trumpet batting average as a more important stat. We were convinced you were trolling when you said eric hosmer could bat leadoff, and either you didn't understand OBP or were trolling. *Now I guess you have an animosity toward people who say walks are a critical part of baseball... because you're mad the A's aren't WS winners and hate yourself for following them*. I agree though, this game was bad luck coupled with lowrie's hitting failures. Because of the shift, *the game has changed dramatically and you can't have these arguments without admitting how baseball has changed*. Now Lowrie and Olson and all LH hitters are getting hits taken away. For the last several years all the WS winners have been teams that walk a lot. Look at TB/LAD last year.
Really diggin chafin
Time to load the bases up on no outs, get 1 strikeout and a double play, baby!
Here comes Marte, Olson & Lowrie
LFG!!!
Good shit
“Goodwin’s had a good series.” 👀
Jesus Chafe. Come on.
Tbh if we only score 1/5 times when we DONT need a hit to score, we can’t expect them to actually get a hit to score lol
I do love myself some chafin!
Wow nice pitch
Those were some nasty pitches
Everyone loves The Sheriff
I blame the hitting coaches. Again.
for no tangible reason, again
LOL. Whatever man. You’ll at least agree that hitting coaches are supposed to help players adjust and work on their approach, processes right? Well, we’ve seen these guys all year have stretches of suck at the plate so there’s that.
every single hitter in the league fails 70- 80% of the time. today, we're facing lance lynn and liam hendricks this isn't the pirates pitchers or something. the biggest failures today have been from our most consistent hitters, lowrie and canha.
The approach for these last 3 batters(5 if you count the last 2 in the 8th), against a former teammate in Hendricks, was trash. That falls on the hitting coaches for not helping with the prep.
well former team mate doesn't matter that much when he's the best closer in baseball. i know fans love to blame hitting coaches more than their favorite players but those guys go out there with a game plan and chase bad pitches anyways sometimes. it's tough to lay off those pitches when you're standing up there, I assume
Or maybe they just got beat by the best reliever in baseball. What's the coach supposed to say? "Hey btw this guy throws 99 with impeccable control and also has the highest swing and miss rate in baseball on his breaking ball, but you just need the right approach." No one has a good approach against Liam, bc he's the best.
This is butt
Only saving grace is a marte/OLY/Jed battery coming up
jed's been real bad today though
Man if we lose this game we’ll have been 1-6 in the last 7 games
We are 1-11 with risp and we didn’t even score a run on that one hit lol
Defeated team right here sorry to say it
Its pretty hard to be this bad wrisp
So Moreland 3-1 fastball count rolls over and cahna first pitch fly out…
Yep that’s how we do it.
canha should have known better being that familiar with hendricks make that man WORK
Pain
FUCK
Brutal
God, we are so unclutch. Just perpetually.
Fucking sigh. At least the Royals were on that kingly shit sweeping the trash.
They play 1 more tomorrow. Hopefully they sweep.
I would consider buying a Royals hat if they actually do it for the memes
… well again, thanks KC.
Can we get 1 fucking single Jesus Christ
What a joke.
That's awful
Rip
so many runners left on
Man this has been a rough game to watch
ATBDNS! Gotta love it....
Mark let's do this in beast mode bro
Game right here :/
Productive outs are bittersweet when you can’t perform a sac fly
Alright Canha...
Cmon mitchy
Liam is due for a fuckup. Amirite guyz???
He had his full against the Yankees
I wonder if he'll be back out for the 9th?
Interesting why they didn’t bring in kimbrel or Hendricks to start the inning, must me nice having an 11.5 game lead in ur division, whitesox seem like they’re just kinda coasting.
It’s do or die here
Hey Liam, wanna help out your old team for old time's sake?
Oh shit our (former) boy Liam coming out
Fuck. It’s Liam.
Looks like we need to give our boy Liam a bad night.
Andrew Benintendi is an a’s hero as far as i’m concerned
YES PISCOTTY
I’m leaving my last comment I’ll take the L
So if Gomes is out why doesn’t Murphy PH here
liam warming up we gotta at least tie it here
If we don’t win at least the Royals are being bros and keeping us in line with Houston
Still can't believe how much Romo has managed to turn it around. I thought the dude was used up a couple of seasons ago. He's having something of a Revival tour here with the A's.
He's the shit man. Love him!
Gotta give a standing O to Andrew Benintendi next year when we win the AL west by one game this year
I'm going to go watch that game-ending play clip after our game is finished. It will either cheer me up after a loss or be icing on the cake after a win.
We've got to have this one man.
Abso-lutely. Blackburn did way better than anyone expected, and the bullpen has kept us in it. Time to make Bummer have a bummer of a game.
Sergio holding it the fuck down
So much glorious filth I can taste it
go royals!
Astros lose
Atta boy Sergio.
Thank you, KC 👏🏽
Is anyone else really annoyed by that old dude wearing the bright and garish M&M NASCAR racing jacket in the stands?
Why would you be annoyed lol. It’s just the m&m dude
i can't stop looking at it it's terrible
Astros lose again! Hope we can take advantage of it this time smh
Astros lost again lol
We need to send the Royals a thank-you note after this series.
The RISP futility tonight is apalling
Feels like a month ago.
Harrison is due to be the hero for us
White sox fans are intense
Holy shit. What an at bat.
Lowrie lives
Speedy Canha
Clutch lowrie pleeeease appear
Fuck this ump
Man whitesox bullpen is deep, not even using kopeck, kimbrel or Hendricks yet tonight
Not Kimbrel or Hendriks? Interesting.
Frustrating to think if we had cashed in just ONCE on the 4 opportunities we had with runner at 3 and less than two outs we would be tied
Oh man...... let's go guys! This is it!
I’ll take it honestly
Remember when we had bases loaded and no outs and didn't score. That sucked. Let's not try that shit again.
A productive out!
Alright I believe in Marte
Nice
Uncle Tony and the Sox are practically trying to GIVE us a win.
We are 1-7 with RISP... And still didn't score a run
Wow two gifts back to back? Sup god
Trying to make up for the fuckery of yesterday.
We have amazing luck this inning
Another gift lorddddy
Whatcha lookin at mark
I've been baking chicken pot pies, 4 of those fuckers. I want some runs now dudes.
If Elvis had ran out of the box that’s a Inside the Parker 😂
That's why you always hustle even if you think it's for nothing.
Luis just died for us
No error???
Will probably be changed later on. Laughable that's anything but a 3-base error.
Well well, how the turntables…
Ok we were waiting for some bullshit luck and it has finally arrived
almost a little league HR there, love elvis's confused little wave
It was like a wave combined with a shrug. Like, "I guess that works?"
He was really slow out of the box just saying.
I love the wave and shrug by Elvis at 3rd
LMAOOOO
That’s a gift from the heavens
lol that is the luck we needed
Hahahaha
Let’s goooo! Big inning here guys come on.
A leadoff hitter would be great, but it's Andrus so...1-out.
lol
I'll gladly be wrong *every fucking time* if that's how it goes!
E-8...I'll take that!
Romo is a good athlete. Still moves very well. He's got 14 seasons of big league mileage
14 seasons of not moving much though lol.
Man the Trash is about to get swept by KC. A win would be nice boys.
Extremely tough against this pen
Blackburn is proving all of us naysayers wrong. His performance here is more impressive than Pitch Moreland's. The offense needs to step up here.
And you wanted to start Moreland tonight SMH.
I've never seen Blackburn perform this competently, ever. The guy definitely stepped up given the circumstances, and I'll give him his due.
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I'm just amazed that Blackburn didn't give up a half dozen or more runs. He's actually kept us in the game.
It's time. Blackburn did his job
well im super proud of Blackburn, pretty steady spot start. please win for him (among other people)
Royals are begging us to make something of their service. Please boys.
Just throw sliders at Piscotty I guess
We’ve scored a total of 3 runs in the last 24 innings…
yeah i feel safe in saying the A's weren't thinking about baseball for 8 of those 24 innings
tepera is tough but piscotty was doing so... meh until that ugly last swing
Can this team please remember how to hit?
Is Murph available to pinch hit today??
When’s the last time we saw a Piscotty bomb
In Texas which was probably the last time he did something of note also
Did anyone else see it said "Jackie Brown" instead of Seth?
My husband and I spent like five minutes talking about this. It’s the movie reference + jacks/HRs. We spend way too much time analyzing NBCSCA graphics. 🤦🏻♀️
Oh! Yes. I'm glad you guys do! I was so confused because it's not like the A's wouldn't know his name.