In a franchise as old as the Oakland Athletics, there are plenty of great players. But who were the top ten pitchers? Swingin’ A’s writers Andrew Dambrauskas and Katrina Putnam tried to rank them in order, from the greatest to the very best.
Let’s start with #10:
#10: RHP Tim Hudson
Tim Hudson was a staple of the famed Big Three rotation in the early 2000s. His encore performance in Oakland last season where he faced off against colleague Barry Zito was an appropriate send-off for the former Oakland great, because he quietly had one of the best pitching careers of all A’s starters.