It's almost time for the baseball playoffs to start and because of that there is a good question brought up: How are the Oakland A's still in the hunt for the playoffs? The Oakland A's are supposed to be the team of the future, but apparently to the A's the future is now.
The A's have seven rookies on their squad and most of them are starters. Greg Smith and Dana Eveland have done well in their first year pitching at the Major League level. Brad Ziegler has thrown 23 and 2/3 innings without allowing a run (record for innings pitched by a rookie without allowing a run).
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Jerry Blevins has thrown seven and 2/3 innings and not allowed a run as well. Carlos Gonzalez and Ryan Sweeney are two rookie starters in the outfield. Both have strong arms and a good bat. Gonzalez is batting .262 with two homeruns and 16 RBI's since coming up to the organization in early June.
Sweeney is batting .307 with three homeruns and 34 RBI's since the beginning of the year. To make things seem even harder for the A's, they have traded two starting pitchers. One was Rich Harden and the other was Joe Blanton. Blanton had won six games and lost 12 with an ERA of 4.96.
Harden had won six games and lost one game with an ERA of 2.34. The A's traded Harden for top prospects in the Cubs organization and the A's also received the number, two, four, and eight from the Phillies for Joe Blanton. If the A's have in fact went young then look at the A's becoming a playoff contender for the next five years.
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