Happy Thursday everyone!
The first home stand is official over and there are definitely some things that stood out over the first seven games of the season. The biggest thing is that the hot hitting the club had going at the end of spring didn’t follow them back to Oakland. The lineup has struggled in the early going, scoring just 15 runs over the first seven games, which averages out to 2.14 runs/game. It’s still early but it is concerning. Players expected to be big parts of the offense like Brent Rooker (2-20), Zack Gelof (4-27), Ryan Noda (5-25 with 9/2 K/BB ratio), and Seth Brown (2-22) have gotten off to really tough starts and that’s probably a huge piece of why they’ve sputtered out of the gate.