The Roster

My first reaction: why is Gallagher in the pen? I mean, I thought the whole excuse here was he had some mechanical issues to deal with, why not send him down like what was done with Gio? I'm very afraid that Anderson and Cahill aren't ready. Yea, the team knows their personnel better than anyone, but it doesn't stop me from worrying. Andrew Bailey makes the team huh. Hope he can be decent, kind of sucks not having Devine now. To be honest, the pitching does not appear to be the mess I thought it was. Yea it sucks, but there are a ton of swappable parts here, we may suck but it looks to be consistant suck. One or more of these guys get hurt/suck it up more than others, we can swap in someone else. So yea, not exciting, but there seems to be plan B, C, and D in place when they are needed. Hell we gonna need them too, we already had our best pitcher and arguably best reliever get hurt.

Same can be said for the position players really. Not the injury part, the swappable part. Alright, if Holliday goes down, we're fucked, but anyone else it don't matter taht much. Suzuki I guess depending how much you trust Powell's knees. Nomar, Crosby, Rajai Davis, Powell is beyond a solid bench. That's a pretty fucking awesome bench. Not to mention our AAA depth, you know with nomar giambi and chavy on the team hannahan an barton wont be down there for long. This year is gonna be fun. Probably gonna see about fifty million different players put on a A's uniform, but none of that matters if they manage to win games. And hell, if this year isn't the year, it'll be neat to see how Beane tears down this roster. Lot of young guys, but certainly some tradeable pieces too. Hopefully it doesn't come to that though, I'm thinkin playoffs this year.