Oakland now the overwhelming favorite to win the American league

[DH12]

Even if the Jays get a wild card spot this is Oakland year. Billie Bean made a genius move to get those pitchers and seal the deal. They will likely win the world series as well

[gruber92]

Even if the Jays get a wild card spot this is Oakland year. Billie Bean made a genius move to get those pitchers and seal the deal. They will likely win the world series as well

 

Pre All Star break and the world series is already being handed out.

[DH12]

Pre All Star break and the world series is already being handed out.

 

This is Oaklands year to win it all

[Nox]

This is Oaklands year to win it all

 

Thank god you started posting here.

[GeorgiaPeach]

Even if the Jays get a wild card spot this is Oakland year. Billie Bean made a genius move to get those pitchers and seal the deal. They will likely win the world series as well

 

You posting from a cell?

[FireAlexAnthopoulos]

I like the team Oakland's built, but they've choked so many times in the playoffs in the Beane era that I just can't buy them as the overwhelming favorite until I see results.

[DH12]

I like the team Oakland's built, but they've choked so many times in the playoffs in the Beane era that I just can't buy them as the overwhelming favorite until I see results.

 

This is how you get to a world series win. Often teams make the playoffs multiple times in consecutive years before they finally win the world series. Oakland will finally do it this year after coming close in previous years. The Jays will need a few more years of at least making the playoffs before they will win a world series. They are where oakland was a few years ago. It would be considered a victory if the jays just make a wild card but anything less than a world series win for oakland would be unacceptable.

[Convo]

Man, Oakland just looks so solid everywhere... and they don't under-value pitching and defense like many other teams (*COUGH* BLUE JAYS *COUGH*)

[Art Vandelay]

The Jays swept the A's earlier this season, yeah?

[Solaxys]

The Jays swept the A's earlier this season, yeah?

 

We swept 3 game; they swept us 4 game. Oakland +1.

[CJ-Freeway]

Oakland looks tough but I think you shouldn't write off the Angels just yet. They're only 3.5 back in the AL West and they will most likely bust a move before the trade deadline. Let's see what the Angels do before handing out the AL West to the A's.

 

In addition, the Tigers will also make some moves before the deadline so don't hand out the WS to the A's just yet.

[pickoff22]

Yes one thing I've learned about baseball is that the team that looks the best always wins the world series. Like the Tigers the past few years.

[shortstop]

Verlander called it what it is - to have what Beane considers a much better #1 pitching in big playoff games...last 2 playoffs, they had Gray and then ?? go up against Verlander...Beane wanted his stud this time around...

[dineke]

No one is an "overwhelming favorite" in the playoffs.

[jaysblue]

Even if the Jays get a wild card spot this is Oakland year. Billie Bean made a genius move to get those pitchers and seal the deal. They will likely win the world series as well

 

Lets not get ahead of ourselves here.

[Atothe]

The best rotation in baseball the past 2 years couldn't win a world series

[TwistedLogic]

Man, Oakland just looks so solid everywhere... and they don't under-value pitching and defense like many other teams (*COUGH* BLUE JAYS *COUGH*)

 

So it is your opinion that the Blue Jays are "*COUGH*" for undervaluing defense. It is also your opinion, in regards to Chase Headley, that "if the Jays are really pursuing him for this year they are dumb as f***".

 

Makes sense.

[FireAlexAnthopoulos]

This is how you get to a world series win. Often teams make the playoffs multiple times in consecutive years before they finally win the world series. Oakland will finally do it this year after coming close in previous years. The Jays will need a few more years of at least making the playoffs before they will win a world series. They are where oakland was a few years ago. It would be considered a victory if the jays just make a wild card but anything less than a world series win for oakland would be unacceptable.

 

Heard the same thing in the early 2000's when the Hudson/Mulder/Zito/Giambi/Tejada/Chavez teams racked up wins in the regular season and couldn't win a playoff series. Honestly, I think Beane feeds into it with his excuse that "the playoffs are all about luck." Regardless, they need to start winning in the playoffs before they can be trusted as the favorites. A whopping one playoff series win since 1990 isn't cutting it.