The Oakland A’s faced the Red Sox last weekend, and Boston entered the series as the hands-down hottest offense in baseball in the early going. However, the A’s shut them down so thoroughly that Oakland’s lineup may have wrestled away that title.
It’s certainly not a unanimous decision. The green and gold ranks only 6th in runs/game (5.18), with the Red Sox still topping that category. Scoring is the ultimate goal on offense, so that will always be an important measure. But there’s more than one way to skin a spreadsheet, so here are some other MLB rankings for the A’s:
- 1st in wRC+ (120), 3rd in OPS (.