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| 919 | OAKLAND | +182 | Ov 9.5,+100 | +220 | Ov 9,-120 | | 920 | HOUSTON | -195 | Un 9.5,-120 | -240 | Un 9,+100 |
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| All Games | 53-70 | -13.2 | 66-53 | 4.4 | 0.240 | 0.311 | 0.410 | 0.722 | 5.2 | 0.261 | 0.323 | 0.424 | 0.746 | | Road Games | 19-39 | -15.6 | 30-27 | 3.8 | 0.234 | 0.305 | 0.381 | 0.686 | 5.2 | 0.266 | 0.325 | 0.434 | 0.759 | | vs Right-handed Starters | 40-51 | -8.8 | 50-40 | 4.4 | 0.240 | 0.312 | 0.413 | 0.725 | 5.3 | 0.263 | 0.321 | 0.431 | 0.751 | | Past 7 Games | 2-5 | -3 | 4-3 | 4.7 | 0.255 | 0.300 | 0.451 | 0.751 | 6.0 | 0.314 | 0.368 | 0.486 | 0.854 | | Grass Games | 52-63 | -7.3 | 61-50 | 4.4 | 0.240 | 0.311 | 0.415 | 0.726 | 5.2 | 0.260 | 0.322 | 0.418 | 0.740 | | Day Games | 23-23 | -0.9 | 28-18 | 5.1 | 0.267 | 0.339 | 0.451 | 0.790 | 5.3 | 0.242 | 0.309 | 0.403 | 0.712 | | Division | 17-32 | -12.7 | 24-25 | 3.9 | 0.224 | 0.297 | 0.392 | 0.689 | 5.3 | 0.262 | 0.322 | 0.410 | 0.732 |
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| All Games | 4.4 | 0.240 | 0.311 | 123 | 4126 | 992 | 211 | 11 | 156 | 0.410 | 515 | 424 | 1142 | 42 | 804 | 103 | 98 | 124 | 78 | | Road Games | 3.8 | 0.234 | 0.305 | 58 | 1976 | 463 | 87 | 2 | 66 | 0.381 | 211 | 202 | 548 | 23 | 406 | 55 | 47 | 63 | 32 | | Righty Starters | 4.4 | 0.240 | 0.312 | 91 | 3048 | 730 | 158 | 7 | 119 | 0.413 | 391 | 323 | 838 | 27 | 593 | 76 | 68 | 101 | 62 |
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| All Games | 4.67 | 1.345 | 412 | 234 | 214 | 398 | 60 | 156 | 396 | 17-20 | 23 | 18 | 56.1% | | Road Games | 5.69 | 1.509 | 167.7 | 115 | 106 | 182 | 29 | 71 | 150 | 3-10 | 10 | 11 | 47.6% |
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| All Games | 76-47 | +10.9 | 63-52 | 5.7 | 0.288 | 0.347 | 0.479 | 0.827 | 4.3 | 0.241 | 0.309 | 0.401 | 0.710 | | Home Games | 36-26 | -2.6 | 28-33 | 4.9 | 0.283 | 0.340 | 0.474 | 0.813 | 4.1 | 0.225 | 0.295 | 0.388 | 0.683 | | vs Right-handed Starters | 59-28 | +22 | 45-36 | 5.7 | 0.289 | 0.346 | 0.484 | 0.830 | 4.3 | 0.238 | 0.307 | 0.399 | 0.706 | | Past 7 Games | 5-2 | +2.8 | 2-5 | 3.7 | 0.266 | 0.314 | 0.424 | 0.738 | 2.4 | 0.241 | 0.310 | 0.400 | 0.710 | | Grass Games | 72-44 | +10.5 | 57-52 | 5.6 | 0.287 | 0.345 | 0.476 | 0.821 | 4.4 | 0.241 | 0.308 | 0.399 | 0.707 | | Day Games | 22-11 | +8.9 | 18-12 | 6.1 | 0.278 | 0.353 | 0.471 | 0.823 | 4.8 | 0.242 | 0.317 | 0.414 | 0.732 | | Division | 34-16 | +11.5 | 21-25 | 5.2 | 0.280 | 0.340 | 0.457 | 0.798 | 4.0 | 0.225 | 0.294 | 0.370 | 0.664 |
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| All Games | 5.7 | 0.288 | 0.347 | 123 | 4288 | 1234 | 242 | 15 | 183 | 0.479 | 666 | 392 | 827 | 69 | 845 | 146 | 78 | 118 | 71 | | Home Games | 4.9 | 0.283 | 0.340 | 62 | 2076 | 587 | 118 | 4 | 90 | 0.474 | 296 | 180 | 383 | 33 | 410 | 79 | 39 | 68 | 40 | | Righty Starters | 5.7 | 0.289 | 0.346 | 87 | 3007 | 869 | 177 | 11 | 129 | 0.484 | 477 | 261 | 569 | 40 | 582 | 102 | 55 | 85 | 46 |
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| All Games | 4.19 | 1.241 | 419 | 203 | 195 | 361 | 57 | 159 | 516 | 25-17 | 31 | 15 | 67.4% | | Home Games | 3.96 | 1.183 | 211.3 | 98 | 93 | 168 | 34 | 82 | 264 | 10-10 | 19 | 8 | 70.4% |
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| 8/6/2017 | MANAEA(L) | @ LA ANGELS | NOLASCO(R) | 11-10 | W | 120 | 9 ev | O | 18 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 0 | | 8/8/2017 | GRAVEMAN(R) | SEATTLE | MIRANDA(L) | 6-7 | L | +105 | 9 ov | O | 8 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 0 | | 8/9/2017 | COTTON(R) | SEATTLE | GALLARDO(R) | 3-6 | L | -110 | 9.5 ov | U | 7 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | | 8/10/2017 | SMITH(R) | BALTIMORE | MILEY(L) | 2-7 | L | +100 | 9.5 un | U | 7 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 2 | | 8/11/2017 | BLACKBURN(R) | BALTIMORE | JIMENEZ(R) | 5-4 | W | +110 | 9.5 ev | U | 10 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 1 | | 8/12/2017 | MANAEA(L) | BALTIMORE | BUNDY(R) | 5-12 | L | -105 | 9 un | O | 10 | 9 | 0 | 20 | 9 | 1 | | 8/13/2017 | GRAVEMAN(R) | BALTIMORE | HELLICKSON(R) | 9-3 | W | +105 | 9.5 un | O | 8 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 1 | | 8/14/2017 | COTTON(R) | KANSAS CITY | JUNIS(R) | 2-6 | L | -120 | 9 ev | U | 5 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 1 | | 8/15/2017 | SMITH(R) | KANSAS CITY | HAMMEL(R) | 10-8 | W | +115 | 9 un | O | 14 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | | 8/16/2017 | BLACKBURN(R) | KANSAS CITY | DUFFY(L) | 6-7 | L | +110 | 9.5 un | O | 12 | 9 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 1 | | 8/18/2017 | MANAEA(L) | @ HOUSTON | KEUCHEL(L) | 1-3 | L | 190 | 8.5 ov | U | 5 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 0 | | 8/19/2017 | GRAVEMAN(R) | @ HOUSTON | MCHUGH(R) | 0-3 | L | 150 | 9.5 un | U | 6 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | | 8/20/2017 | COTTON(R) | @ HOUSTON | PEACOCK(R) | | | 8/21/2017 | SMITH(R) | @ BALTIMORE | JIMENEZ(R) | | | 8/22/2017 | BLACKBURN(R) | @ BALTIMORE | BUNDY(R) | | | 8/23/2017 | MANAEA(L) | @ BALTIMORE | HELLICKSON(R) | | | 8/25/2017 | | TEXAS | | | | 8/26/2017 | | TEXAS | | | | 8/27/2017 | | TEXAS | | |
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| 8/6/2017 | FIERS(R) | TORONTO | STROMAN(R) | 7-6 | W | -110 | 9 un | O | 16 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 1 | | 8/8/2017 | KEUCHEL(L) | @ CHI WHITE SOX | HOLLAND(L) | 5-8 | L | -250 | 9.5 ov | O | 9 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 0 | | 8/9/2017 | MCHUGH(R) | @ CHI WHITE SOX | GONZALEZ(R) | 1-7 | L | -210 | 10 ov | U | 6 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 1 | | 8/10/2017 | PEACOCK(R) | @ CHI WHITE SOX | RODON(L) | 2-3 | L | -150 | 9.5 un | U | 12 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 2 | | 8/11/2017 | MORTON(R) | @ TEXAS | HAMELS(L) | 4-6 | L | -120 | 10.5 ov | U | 8 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 0 | | 8/12/2017 | FIERS(R) | @ TEXAS | ROSS(R) | 3-8 | L | -115 | 11 ov | P | 4 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 2 | | 8/13/2017 | KEUCHEL(L) | @ TEXAS | CASHNER(R) | 2-1 | W | -135 | 11 un | U | 6 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 0 | | 8/14/2017 | MCHUGH(R) | @ ARIZONA | GREINKE(R) | 0-2 | L | 140 | 9 ov | U | 7 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 1 | | 8/15/2017 | PEACOCK(R) | @ ARIZONA | BANDA(L) | 9-4 | W | -110 | 9.5 ov | O | 13 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 0 | | 8/16/2017 | MORTON(R) | ARIZONA | WALKER(R) | 9-5 | W | -145 | 9 ov | O | 16 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 1 | | 8/17/2017 | FIERS(R) | ARIZONA | CORBIN(L) | 0-4 | L | -120 | 9.5 ov | U | 4 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 3 | | 8/18/2017 | KEUCHEL(L) | OAKLAND | MANAEA(L) | 3-1 | W | -210 | 8.5 ov | U | 7 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | | 8/19/2017 | MCHUGH(R) | OAKLAND | GRAVEMAN(R) | 3-0 | W | -160 | 9.5 un | U | 8 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | | 8/20/2017 | PEACOCK(R) | OAKLAND | COTTON(R) | | | 8/22/2017 | MORTON(R) | WASHINGTON | ROARK(R) | | | 8/23/2017 | FIERS(R) | WASHINGTON | JACKSON(R) | | | 8/24/2017 | KEUCHEL(L) | WASHINGTON | SCHERZER(R) | | | 8/25/2017 | | @ LA ANGELS | | | | 8/26/2017 | | @ LA ANGELS | | | | 8/27/2017 | | @ LA ANGELS | | |
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| |  | OAKLAND: 2016: 69-93, fifth place
Manager: Bob Melvin (seventh season)
Who's new? CF Rajai Davis, OF Matt Joyce, 3B Trevor Plouffe, IF Adam Rosales, RHP Santiago Casilla
Who's gone? IF/OF Danny Valencia, OF Brett Eibner, 2B Eric Sogard, 2B Tyler Ladendorf, LHP Dillon Overton, RHP Fernando Rodriguez
Projected lineup: CF Rajai Davis (.249, 12 HR, 48 RBI, 43 SB with Indians), C Stephen Vogt (.251, 14, 56), DH Ryon Healy (.305, 13, 37 in 72 games), LF Khris Davis (.247, 42, 102), RF Matt Joyce (.242, 13, 42 with Pirates) or Mark Canha (.122, 3, 6 in 16 games), SS Marcus Semien (.238, 27, 75, 10 SB), 3B Trevor Plouffe (.260, 12, 47 with Twins), 1B Yonder Alonso (.253, 7, 56), 2B Jed Lowrie (.263, 2, 27 in 87 games)
Rotation: RH Kendall Graveman (10-11, 4.11), LH Sean Manaea (7-9, 3.86), RH Jharel Cotton (2-0, 2.15 in five games), RH Andrew Triggs (1-1, 4.31), RH Jesse Hahn (2-4, 6.02 in nine games) and Frankie Montas (0-0, 2.38 in four games at Triple-A)
Key relievers: RH Ryan Madson (6-7, 3.62, 30/37 SV), LH Sean Doolittle (2-3, 3.23), RH Santiago Casilla (2-5, 3.57 with Giants), RH Ryan Dull (5-5, 2.42), RH John Axford (6-4, 3.97), RH Liam Hendriks (0-4, 3.76), LH Daniel Coulombe (3-1, 4.53)
Hot spots: Fifth Starter and Second Base. Triggs, Hahn and Montas are the top candidates to fill out the rotation. Montas, who turns 24 before the season, is the youngest and has the highest ceiling. Hahn is the only one with something resembling a track record of success in the majors. Triggs showed potential in five starts last year. Second base will belong to prospect Franklin Barreto at some point. For now the position belongs to Lowrie, who figures to become trade bait as the A's begin their annual migration toward mathematical elimination.
Outlook: It's been a long two years since the A's played postseason baseball. Rather than rebuilding outright, the A's spent their offseason stocking up on veteran position players. Their strength is a young rotation led by right-hander Sonny Gray ' another trade candidate who's coming off the worst of his four major league seasons (5-11, 5.69 ERA) and will miss time with a lat strain. If Cotton, Manaea and Triggs pick up where they left off, pitching won't be the problem. No team scored fewer runs than the A's in 2016, and it still isn't obvious that their lineup improved. Their home turf will be renamed in honor of Rickey Henderson when the Angels visit Oakland for the opener; maybe Rickey can hit leadoff, too. | | HOUSTON: 2016: 84-78, third place
Manager: A.J. Hinch (third season)
Who's new? RF Josh Reddick, CF Carlos Beltran, LF Nori Aoki, C Brian McCann, RHP Charlie Morton
Who's gone? C Jason Castro, INF Luis Valbuena, OF Colby Rasmus, RHP Doug Fister
Projected lineup: CF George Springer (.261, 29 HR, 82 RBI), 2B Jose Altuve (.338, 24, 96, 30 SB), SS Carlos Correa (.274, 20, 96, 13 SB), DH Carlos Beltran (.295, 29, 93 with Yankees and Rangers), C Brian McCann (.242, 20, 58 with Yankees) or Evan Gattis (.251, 32, 72), 3B Alex Bregman (.264, 8, 34 in 49 games), RF Josh Reddick (.281, 10, 37 with A's and Dodgers), 1B Yulieski Gurriel (.262, 3, 15), LF Nori Aoki (.283, 4, 28 with Mariners)
Rotation: LH Dallas Keuchel (9-12, 4.55 ERA), RH Collin McHugh (13-10, 4.34), RH Mike Fiers (11-8, 4.48), RH Lance McCullers (6-5, 3.22), RH Charlie Morton (1-1, 4.15 in four games with Phillies)
Key relievers: RH Ken Giles (2-5, 4.11, 15/20 SV), RH Luke Gregerson (4-3, 3.28, 15/21 SV), RH Will Harris (1-2, 2.25, 12/15 SV), RH Chris Devenski (4-4, 2.16), LH Tony Sipp (1-2, 4.95), RH Michael Feliz (8-1, 4.43)
Hot spots: Fifth starter and catcher. Hamstring issues limited 33-year-old Morton to four starts with the Phillies last season. That didn't stop the Astros from signing him to a two-year contract worth at least $14 million. Now, veteran Fiers and 24-year-old Joe Musgrove are on the bubble for the fifth starter's job. McCann and Gattis give the Astros a pair of veteran catchers with slugging potential. McCann has fewer weaknesses behind the plate; Gattis is the better all-around hitter. With Beltran aboard as the primary designated hitter, McCann and Gattis won't both be in the lineup on most nights.
Outlook: After slipping to third place in the AL West last year, the Astros' front office decided to double down on dingers rather than upgrade a rotation that lacks a true ace. The result: A lineup with eight potential 20-home run hitters, including possible MVP candidates in Altuve and Correa. Everyone returns from an impressive young bullpen with high strikeout potential. If the Astros are in contention by the trade deadline, the front office should have the financial flexibility to add a front-line starter. Then again, if Dallas Keuchel looks like the pitcher who won a Cy Young Award in 2015, Houston might not have a problem. |
| | Astros' Peacock continues breakout season versus A's
HOUSTON -- Houston Astros right-hander Brad Peacock continues his breakout season when he faces the Oakland Athletics on Sunday. Peacock (10-1, 3.30 ERA) has been reborn this season, thriving as a starter and long reliever for the Astros (76-47). He spent one season with the Oakland organization (he did not pitch for the Athletics in 2012) before joining Houston via trade Feb. 4, 2013. He has remade his delivery in part because of years of injury issues, and the results of his labor have paid dividends. "It's been exceptional," Astros manager A.J. Hinch said. "Watching him evolve as a pitcher over the last couple of years has really come together this year with his ability to miss bats. He's had to change the way he pitches mostly out of health issues over the last couple of years. "He's battled his control in the past. He's really found his niche in his delivery that synced up to where he can use the weapons that everyone loved from the beginning of him being a prospect to now him being arguably our most consistent pitcher this entire year outside of (Dallas) Keuchel. "The strikeout numbers are real. It takes a lot to accumulate those kind of strikeout numbers with his strike-throwing ability which has improved, his wipeout breaking ball that he's come up with over the last six months, 12 months." Peacock is 2-0 with a 2.19 ERA over four games (two starts) against the Athletics this season and 3-4 with a 4.25 ERA over 14 career appearances (11 starts) against Oakland. Right-hander Jharel Cotton (5-10, 5.92 ERA) will start the series finale for Oakland (53-70). He is 0-1 with a 3.48 ERA over two career starts against the Astros, with that loss coming in his only start against Houston this season: a 9-4 setback at Minute Maid Park on April 28 when he allowed six runs (three earned) on 10 hits and one walk with four strikeouts over 4 1/3 innings. After shifting super utility man Chad Pinder from right field to center in the eighth inning Friday night, Athletics manager Bob Melvin revealed plans to do so again in the future. Pinder served as a middle infielder last season before assuming some corner outfield duties this year. "We also want to take a look at (Boog) Powell and certainly Rajai (Davis) will  the lefties," Melvin said. "We'll get (Pinder) out there, I'm not sure when. It might be more in-game type moves like (Friday), but at some point in time we'll get him a start. I'm just not sure when. "Center field is a little different dynamic in that you're dealing with both corner guys. Usually the guy in center is more of a speed guy. But he's done a really nice job in the corners, so as of right now we feel like we have two guys that can hold down the fort in center field at least to start." |
| | Last Updated: 4/19/2024 8:14:03 PM EST. |
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