Tigers still beat them in a series.
Scherzer/JV/Sanchez/Porcello > A's rotation.
A's pen is massively better however.
Mike Trout>>>
A's are going for it. Why not? They have a really good team that just got a lot better. I never like to say things like clear favorites to win the world series as anybody in the playoffs can get hot at the right time. But they have made their team really tough to face. If the Braves don't win it all I wouldn't mind seeing the A's take it.
I think the AL is fairly weak as a group of potential playoff teams. I think before this trade the Athletics had a 50 percent chance to win the AL. I may have been a tad presumptuous to say they'd win it all. I more so meant they would be in it. This trade makes them the clear favorite and perhaps best team in baseball. So they are looking at maybe a 30 percent chance of winning it then whole thing now.
I think they already were clearly the best team in baseball. This solidifies it.
If they extend Jeff Samardjiza that pitching staff is unreal. Hell it's best in baseball already.
Angels acquire Joe Thatcher and Tony Campana from Arizona.
This weakens the Diamondback pen for the next 2 days which is obviously good news for Atlanta. I'm confident of a sweep if Harang has a good outing this afternoon.
Holy Jeez. I've been out with friends all night and I just got news of the A's acquisition. You want to talk about a good team... that lineup is great and the rotation is probably the best in baseball. Oh yeah, that bullpen? Pretty amazing.
Stockholm, more densely populated than NYC - sturg