http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-surprising-winner-this-off-season-the-oakland-as/ Mitchell Plitnick's sports blog Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:11:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-surprising-winner-this-off-season-the-oakland-as/#comment-6 Baseball » A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:09:40 +0000 http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-surprising-winner-this-off-season-the-oakland-as/#comment-6 [...] Mitchell Plitnick wrote an interesting post today on A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’sHere’s a quick excerptAgain, that is an eminently affordable contract, even for the A’s (who, incidentally, are now in baseball’s lower-middle-class in any case). What Beane recognized was that he had a choice—be a decent team for the next few years and … [...] [...] Mitchell Plitnick wrote an interesting post today on A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’sHere’s a quick excerptAgain, that is an eminently affordable contract, even for the A’s (who, incidentally, are now in baseball’s lower-middle-class in any case). What Beane recognized was that he had a choice—be a decent team for the next few years and … [...]

]]> http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-surprising-winner-this-off-season-the-oakland-as/#comment-5 Dog Training » A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:07:16 +0000 http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-surprising-winner-this-off-season-the-oakland-as/#comment-5 [...] The Scream wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAs the Hot Stove League season winds down and gives way to the annual rebirth that is spring training, writers start to assess who the winners and losers were in t he off-season. … Teams have down years where the injury bug and a few problems dog them down. But this team had no future…. [...] [...] The Scream wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAs the Hot Stove League season winds down and gives way to the annual rebirth that is spring training, writers start to assess who the winners and losers were in t he off-season. … Teams have down years where the injury bug and a few problems dog them down. But this team had no future…. [...]

]]> http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-surprising-winner-this-off-season-the-oakland-as/#comment-3 baseball » A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:18:21 +0000 http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-surprising-winner-this-off-season-the-oakland-as/#comment-3 [...] Mitchell Plitnick wrote a fantastic post today on “A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s”Here’s ONLY a quick extractThat team is the Oakland Athletics. But wait, you say, the A’s traded their best pitcher and their best position player for a bunch of guys we’ve never heard of. How can that be a win for the A’s? It can be and it was, but to understand … [...] [...] Mitchell Plitnick wrote a fantastic post today on “A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s”Here’s ONLY a quick extractThat team is the Oakland Athletics. But wait, you say, the A’s traded their best pitcher and their best position player for a bunch of guys we’ve never heard of. How can that be a win for the A’s? It can be and it was, but to understand … [...]

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