Oakland Athletics players definitely don’t mind baseball and it shows.
Yesterday, Mark Kotsay’s men suffered a tenth consecutive loss by losing their flag 6-3 against the Houston Astros in Oakland.
At this rate, they will do worse than the Detroit Tigers of 2003, when they had a record of 43-119. At the moment, the Athletics record is 10-44 (arguably the worst in the Majors) and if the trend continues, they will end the 2023 season with a total of 30 wins against 132 losses.
Enough to give chills to fans who follow the team’s activities closely.
To give you an idea of the sadness of this prediction, as of today, seven Major League teams have already surpassed the 30-win mark. The Tampa Bay Rays currently total 38 wins and lead in this category.
As we know, the rumors of a move combined with the fact that the leaders decided to field several players destined for the AAA caliber in this 2023 season had the effect of emptying a dilapidated stadium which was already not very well stocked.
Fans of the A’s have a lot on their hearts and with good reason. This concession, year after year, had accustomed us to nice surprises by defying logic and even managing to make the playoffs, but this season is a real fiasco.
THE fans Expos have experienced such a thing, but never to such a degree. They have witnessed a good number of fire sales, mainly from 1995 onwards, but the team will never have reached such a pronounced level of mediocrity.
Mark Kotsay doesn’t even deserve to lose his job and on the contrary he deserves to get votes for manager of the year in the American, because none of his peers would want to be in his place. Don’t tell me the players are motivated by money because the team’s payroll is $59 million this season.
Yesterday, the A’s were in the game until the eighth inning, but they saw the visitors score four runs to walk away with the victory.
Yes, the current season will be very long in Oakland and we can spare a thought for the fans who still attend the team’s games and for those who have already given up.
- A big outing from Shohei Ohtani wasted by his club.
- Justin Verlander lost the north last night.
- 20 homers for Pete Alonso.
