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Pitching metrics 35

It’s my first post here, so please take it easy on me. After all, we are all A’s fans! Go A’s!!!! No, seriously, here’s the thing. There has been lot of talk on ** about FIP and pitching metrics lately. I have to admit I don’t have my opinion set on metrics for pitchers in ...

Your irregular 40-man roster update 83

37 total 18 P 3 C 8 IF 7 OF 1 DH This includes the DeJesus and Encarnacion acquisitions, the option actions. Still a lot of redundant mediocrity and mediocre redundancy in the IF and OF, and a number of NT candidates. Presumably there’s some shoe waiting to drop at 3B, and we are all ...

See, I told you I’d post this today! 100

The Project My goal for this offseason is to put some serious thought into what information we would actually want in order to get the best possible defensive statistics, with a particular eye towards elegance and objectivity (i.e. no “buckets” dividing up the field or stringers categorizing a hit as hard/medium/soft).  This project should also ...

Swisher – an aside 30

I had been thinking recently about the Swisher trade. And then mb and g recently raised the possibility of a Swisher/gio re-swap, I thought I should post this. But I’m not here to talk about the future. When the A’s traded Swisher, a lot of fans (including some future FKers) were upset. Some of that ...

What happens if Crawford decides not to sign with Oakland? 61

I’m not trying to cause nevermoor any angst but with Detroit throwing their hat into the ring there are now 3 suitors pursuing Crawford that all spent more than double Oakland’s payroll during the 2010 season. That kind of economic muscle could lead to a bidding war that the A’s won’t (and maybe even can’t) ...

Does MLB consider contracted player salaries as team debt? 9

This is an … odd post from Marine Layer, and I think it deserves its own dedicated discussion thread here. ML duplicates some (but not all) of grover’s recent work in profiling the A’s salary situation for 2011-2012. He makes a couple idiosyncratic assumptions (um … what “slugger” available this offseason will sign with Oakland ...

The FKArthur Genius Awards 136

David Simon: The Wire of MacArthur geniuses I’m hereby announcing that we are now accepting nominations for the first annual FKArthur Genius Awards. Every FKer may nominate as many geniuses as she or he deems fit. We will accept nominations until we have enough nominees, and then we’ll decide who wins. It could be one, ...

I pay, you profit 15

Scout.com’s Melissa Lockard just wrapped up an interview with A’s Director of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi. Here’s the Cliff Notes version of what was discussed behind the veil of subscriber content.

Pursuing Carl Crawford 118

The question is simple. Can the A’s afford to pay Carl Crawford, arguably the top FA in the upcoming offseason, what it would take to dress him in Green and Gold and still field a viable team around him? I can see at least 4 big budget teams interested in Crawford come November and it’s ...

Welcome to FK 3.0 21

The transition is complete, and I think I got everything that I was worried would be lost. For those of you who visited after the transition but before right now, there’s a chance unread comments that I just pulled over will be considered read by the system, so don’t be too shocked if that happens.  ...