lets worry about pitching

so no, i cant watch A's games here. dont know why. though lets be honest here, video wasnt necessary to come to the conclusion that cahill sucked. glad we won and finally scored some runs, but seeing one of our promising young guys just suck that bad is worrisome. if his next few starts are this bad, im hoping the A's dont hesitate to send him down to sac or maybe even midland. we'll see how anderson does, more optimistic on anderson if only cause hes thrown a few innings in AAA, and everyone seems to love to talk about how mature and composed the guy is.

eveland and adenhart tomorrow, that should be another ugly game. hopefully eveland puts some things together this year, not too optimistic though. figure someone with his stuff would K more guys, but not the case. big problem, as with all our pitchers, is the walks. shit well fangraphs is tellin me had put up a 4.09 FIP last year. thats a hell of a lot better than i would have thought. you know, eveland may k only a modest amount of guys, an he walks a billion, but he did have a slick gb%. nice hr/fb% too, though i'd venture a guess that it will experience some regression this year. projections seem to expect more of the same as last year, all predict a improvement in k/bb at least. so maybe i've shortchanged the guy, perhaps dana eveland is alright. yea hes noone to be excited over, but i see no reason to think he cant fill that blanton role that the club really could use at the moment. maybe even a tiny bit better if he can really get a grip of the control issues. either that or strike guys out like he did in the minors. shoot blanton actually had similar strikeout numbers in the minors too. wonder why the dropoff at the major league level for these two. be joe blanton, eveland. it'll make us all happy. yea i wish we still had joe blanton, that guy is awesome.