Royals/A's thoughts

Team	Record	AVG/OBP/SLG	OPS+	ERA	ERA+
Royals	9-7	.275/.325/.370	86	3.17	140
A's	9-8	.235/.318/.339	84	3.60	110

Kansas City gets their first look at Mike Sweeney as an Athletic, the former Royals star is batting .275/.356/.333 on the season. Former capt. Mike has only struck out just one time in 53 PA's this season. He hasn't got on one of his patented hot streaks yet but I'm sure it's coming.

KC & Oakland look to be pretty similar teams, they are ranked 1st and 2nd in ERA and 14th and 12th in runs scored. So it looks to be a low scoring series and I bet Oakland isn't thrilled to be facing Bannister and Greinke on back to back days. Kc should win two of the games but it really wouldn't surprise me if the sweep the A's. Of course the flip side is that Bannister & Greinke are bound to get roughed up at some point but based on Oakland's offensive numbers they don't seem to be the team to accomplish that.

Can the TPJ experience come to an end please? He is now at .114/.130/.114 for the year. That is 5 hits in 44 at bats. Callaspo is at .350/.350/.500 or 2 more hits in 24 less at bats than Pena. This is really a no brainer because as good as Pena is on defense it does not make up for his bat.
Hopefully Trey realizes this fairly soon.

Can we please calm down on the bases? This team's offensive shortcomings is being made worse by all the outs they are giving away. I'm all for being aggressive but right now it's hurting more than helping.