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2008 Oakland Athletics (Franchise Encyclopedia: 2007)
75-86, 3rd place in AL Western Division
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Scored 646 runs, Allowed 690 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 76-85
Managed by Bob Geren

Ballpark: McAfee Coliseum
Attendance: 1,665,256 (13th of 14)
Park Factors
  (multi-year): Batting - 93, Pitching - 93
  (one-year): Batting - 97, Pitching - 97
  Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.

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Team Batting Glossary

Pos Player              Ag   G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  BB  SO   BA    OBP   SLG  SB  CS  GDP HBP  SH  SF IBB  OPS+
---+-------------------+--+----+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
C   Kurt Suzuki         24  148  530   54  148  25  1   7   42  44   69  .279  .346  .370   2   3  20  11   2   1   2   97
1B *Daric Barton        22  140  446   59  101  17  5   9   47  65   99  .226  .327  .348   2   1   6   3   6   3   5   85
2B  Mark Ellis          31  117  442   55  103  20  3  12   41  53   65  .233  .321  .373  14   2  11   5   5   2   2   90
3B *Jack Hannahan       28  143  436   48   95  27  0   9   47  55  131  .218  .305  .342   2   0   5   2   3   5   4   77
SS  Bobby Crosby        28  145  556   66  132  39  1   7   61  47   96  .237  .296  .349   7   3  18   0   0   2   0   76
LF *Jack Cust           29  148  481   77  111  19  0  33   77 111  197  .231  .375  .476   0   0   7   2   0   4   3  132
CF *Carlos Gonzalez     22   85  302   31   73  22  1   4   26  13   81  .242  .273  .361   4   1   7   0   1   0   1   72
RF *Ryan Sweeney        23  115  384   53  110  18  2   5   45  38   67  .286  .350  .383   9   1   9   3   2   6   3  101
DH  Frank Thomas        40   55  186   20   49   6  1   5   19  28   44  .263  .364  .387   0   0   6   2   0   1   0  106
    Emil Brown          33  117  402   48   98  14  2  13   59  27   65  .244  .297  .386   4   2  16   5   0   4   2   85
    Rajai Davis         27  101  196   28   51   5  4   3   19   7   34  .260  .288  .372  25   6   1   1   2   1   0   80
   *Travis Buck         24   38  155   16   35   9  1   7   25  11   38  .226  .291  .432   1   0   2   4   0   2   0   95
    Mike Sweeney        34   42  126   13   36   8  0   2   12   7    6  .286  .331  .397   0   0   3   2   0   1   0   99
    Donnie Murphy       25   46  103   10   19   3  0   3   13  11   38  .184  .274  .301   2   1   1   2   0   1   0   58
   #Cliff Pennington    24   36   99   14   24   5  0   0    9  13   18  .242  .339  .293   4   1   1   2   2   1   0   76
   *Eric Patterson      25   30   92   11   16   3  0   0    8  12   24  .174  .269  .207   8   0   0   0   0   0   0   33
   #Rob Bowen           27   37   91    6   16   5  1   1    9   4   38  .176  .219  .286   0   0   2   1   2   0   0   37
   *Eric Chavez         30   23   89   10   22   7  0   2   14   6   18  .247  .295  .393   0   0   2   0   0   0   0   87
    Aaron Cunningham    22   22   80    7   20   7  1   1   14   6   24  .250  .310  .400   2   0   1   1   0   0   1   93
    Chris Denorfia      27   29   62   10   18   3  0   1    9   6   16  .290  .362  .387   2   0   3   1   2   0   0  106
    Wes Bankston        24   17   59    4   12   3  0   1    4   2   15  .203  .238  .305   0   0   0   1   0   1   0   48
    Jeff Baisley        25   14   43    1   11   1  0   0    5   4    7  .256  .319  .279   0   0   2   0   0   0   0   66
    Matt Murton         26    9   30    1    3   1  0   0    2   1    7  .100  .129  .133   0   0   1   0   0   0   0  -28
    Gregorio Petit      23   14   23    4    8   2  0   0    0   2    9  .348  .400  .435   0   0   0   0   0   0   0  129
   #Brooks Conrad       28    6   19    0    3   1  0   0    2   0    9  .158  .158  .211   0   0   1   0   0   0   0    0
   *Jeff Fiorentino     25    2    1    0    1   0  0   0    1   0    0 1.000 1.000 1.000   0   0   0   0   0   0   0  452
   *Dan Johnson         28    1    1    0    0   0  0   0    0   0    0  .000  .000  .000   0   0   0   0   0   0   0 -100

    Justin Duchscherer  30   22    6    0    0   0  0   0    0   0    6  .000  .000  .000   0   0   0   0   0   0   0 -100
   *Dana Eveland        24   29    4    0    1   0  0   0    0   1    2  .250  .400  .250   0   0   1   0   1   0   0   84
   *Rich Harden         26   13    4    0    1   0  0   0    0   0    1  .250  .250  .250   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   38
   *Greg Smith          24   32    2    0    1   0  0   0    0   0    1  .500  .500  .500   0   0   0   0   1   0   0  176
    Joe Blanton         27   20    1    0    0   0  0   0    0   0    1  .000  .000  .000   0   0   0   0   0   0   0 -100
---+-------------------+--+----+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
    TOTAL  team age - 27.2  161 5451  646 1318 270 23 125  599 574 1226  .242  .318  .369  88  21 115  37  19  24  12   88
    Rank among 14 AL teams        14   14   14  14 10  11        4    1    14    13    14   7  14      10            
---+-------------------+--+----+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
                        Ag   G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  BB  SO   BA    OBP   SLG  SB  CS  GDP HBP  SH  SF IBB  OPS+

    * - bats left-handed, # - switch hits, ? - unknown, else - bats right-handed
    OPS+ does not include pitcher's stats.

Team Pitching Glossary

    Player              Ag  G    ERA   W   L  SV  GS  GF  CG SHO   IP     H    R   ER   HR  BB   SO   BFP  WP HBP BK IBB ERA+
---+-------------------+--+---+------+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+----+---+---+--+---+---+
SP *Greg Smith          24  32   4.16   7  16  0  32   0   2   0  190.3  169   92   88  21   87  111  800   5   3  1   5  97
SP *Dana Eveland        24  29   4.34   9   9  0  29   0   1   0  168.0  172   82   81  10   77  118  737   6  12  1   2  93
SP  Justin Duchscherer  30  22   2.54  10   8  0  22   0   1   1  141.7  107   45   40  11   34   95  557   1   8  0   2 159
SP  Joe Blanton         27  20   4.96   5  12  0  20   0   0   0  127.0  145   74   70  12   35   62  550   1   1  0   3  82
SP  Rich Harden         26  13   2.34   5   1  0  13   0   0   0   77.0   57   21   20   5   31   92  311   1   1  0   1 173
SP  Sean Gallagher      22  11   5.88   2   3  0  11   0   0   0   56.7   60   42   37   7   36   54  266   0   2  0   1  69
SP *Dallas Braden       24  19   4.14   5   4  0  10   7   0   0   71.7   77   36   33   8   25   41  301   0   2  1   2  98
SP *Gio Gonzalez        22  10   7.68   1   4  0   7   3   0   0   34.0   32   34   29   9   25   34  163   1   3  0   1  53

CL  Huston Street       24  63   3.73   7   5 18   0  37   0   0   70.0   58   29   29   6   27   69  287   2   1  0   6 109
RP *Alan Embree         38  70   4.96   2   5  0   0  11   0   0   61.7   59   36   34   8   30   57  270   2   2  0   5  82
RP  Santiago Casilla    28  51   3.93   2   1  2   0   9   0   0   50.3   60   22   22   5   20   43  229   6   3  0   2 103
RP  Brad Ziegler        28  47   1.06   3   0 11   0  21   0   0   59.7   47    8    7   2   22   30  229   0   1  0   3 384
RP  Joey Devine         24  42   0.59   6   1  1   0  10   0   0   45.7   23    7    3   0   15   49  170   0   0  0   2 685

    Chad Gaudin         25  26   3.59   5   3  0   6   9   0   0   62.7   63   29   25   6   17   44  263   2   3  1   1 113
   *Jerry Blevins       24  36   3.11   1   3  0   0   8   0   0   37.7   32   14   13   2   13   35  156   0   3  0   2 130
    Andrew Brown        27  31   3.09   1   0  0   0  13   0   0   35.0   23   13   12   3   21   28  147   0   1  0   1 131
    Keith Foulke        35  31   4.06   0   3  1   0   9   0   0   31.0   28   14   14   7   13   23  133   1   1  0   2 100
   *Dan Meyer           26  11   7.48   0   4  0   4   5   0   0   27.7   35   28   23   6   14   20  132   0   1  0   0  54
    Kirk Saarloos       29   8   5.47   1   0  0   1   1   0   0   26.3   37   17   16   2    4   12  118   0   0  0   1  74
   *Josh Outman         23   6   4.56   1   2  0   4   0   0   0   25.7   34   14   13   1    8   19  116   1   2  0   1  89
   *Lenny DiNardo       28  11   7.43   1   2  0   2   8   0   0   23.0   31   20   19   3   13   12  114   1   2  0   2  54
    Kiko Calero         33   5   3.86   0   0  0   0   3   0   0    4.7    3    3    2   0    3    7   20   0   0  0   0 105
    Jeff Gray           26   5   7.71   0   0  0   0   2   0   0    4.7    8    4    4   1    1    4   24   0   1  0   0  53
    Fernando Hernandez  23   3  18.00   1   0  0   0   1   0   0    3.0    4    6    6   0    5    2   19   0   1  0   0  22
---+-------------------+--+---+------+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+----+---+---+--+---+---+
    TOTAL  team age - 26.5 161   4.01  75  86 33 161 157   4   1 1435.0 1364  690  640 135  576 1061 6112  30  54  4  45 101
    Rank among 14 AL teams          4  10   5 13           8   7     13    3    3        2   10    8
---+-------------------+--+---+------+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+----+---+---+--+---+---+
                        Ag  G    ERA   W   L  SV  GS  GF  CG SHO   IP     H    R   ER   HR  BB   SO   BFP  WP HBP BK IBB ERA+

    * - throws left-handed, ? - unknown, else - throws right-handed

Team Fielding Glossary League average values for Fielding Percentage and Range Factor are included on all header lines except catcher.

Catchers Inn GS G PO A E DP FP PB WP SB CS -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+--- KSuzuki 1215 136 141 927 53 6 4 .994 5 55 32 RBowen 220 25 31 147 9 2 1 .987 3 15 9 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+--- Team Total 1435 161 161 1074 62 8 5 .993 8 0 70 41 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+--- First Base Inn GS G PO A E DP .994 *9.26 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- DBarton 1121 124 134 1021 73 13 128 .988 8.78 WBankston 108 12 13 104 6 1 10 .991 9.17 MSweeney 90 11 13 89 11 0 9 1.000 10.00 JHannahan 80 10 10 82 5 2 7 .978 9.79 JBaisley 33 4 4 37 1 1 3 .974 10.36 RBowen 2 0 1 2 0 0 2 1.000 9.00 EBrown 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 30.00 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Team Total 1435 161 161 1336 96 17 159 .988 8.98 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Second Base Inn GS G PO A E DP .987 *5.01 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- MEllis 1011 114 115 228 336 4 88 .993 5.02 EPatterson 169 19 20 48 49 4 15 .960 5.16 CPennington 136 15 16 33 44 0 17 1.000 5.10 DMurphy 61 7 10 12 20 0 3 1.000 4.72 GPetit 39 4 4 7 14 0 1 1.000 4.85 BConrad 17 2 2 4 3 0 1 1.000 3.71 RDavis 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 0.00 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Team Total 1435 161 161 332 466 8 125 .990 5.00 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Third Base Inn GS G PO A E DP .958 *2.74 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- JHannahan 983 106 126 70 218 9 24 .970 2.63 DMurphy 143 18 24 12 27 1 7 .975 2.45 EChavez 130 15 15 12 32 1 4 .978 3.05 JBaisley 79 10 10 6 14 0 1 1.000 2.28 CPennington 64 8 9 8 11 1 2 .950 2.67 BConrad 33 4 4 1 4 1 1 .833 1.36 DBarton 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 1.000 9.00 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Team Total 1435 161 161 110 307 13 40 .970 2.62 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Shortstop Inn GS G PO A E DP .971 *4.39 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- BCrosby 1263 144 145 202 383 17 99 .972 4.17 DMurphy 88 9 13 10 27 2 6 .949 3.78 CPennington 56 6 10 10 16 4 5 .867 4.18 GPetit 28 2 8 7 12 2 5 .905 6.11 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Team Total 1435 161 161 229 438 25 115 .964 4.18 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Left Field Inn GS G PO A E DP .984 *2.05 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- JCust 585 77 78 129 4 4 0 .971 2.04 EBrown 413 40 65 89 6 1 1 .990 2.07 ACunningham 150 18 18 41 1 3 0 .933 2.52 CDenorfia 70 7 13 9 1 0 0 1.000 1.28 EPatterson 63 7 8 15 0 1 0 .937 2.14 MMurton 61 7 7 27 1 0 1 1.000 4.13 TBuck 47 3 12 11 1 0 0 1.000 2.30 RSweeney 43 2 13 12 0 0 0 1.000 2.51 DMurphy 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 0.00 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Team Total 1435 161 161 333 14 9 2 .975 2.18 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+-----

CenterField Inn GS G PO A E DP .989 *2.71 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- CGonzalez 528 66 69 176 5 2 1 .989 3.08 RDavis 465 41 84 147 4 1 2 .993 2.92 RSweeney 362 46 51 95 0 0 0 1.000 2.36 CDenorfia 73 8 12 26 0 0 0 1.000 3.18 JFiorentino 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 .000 0.00 EBrown 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 0.00 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Team Total 1435 161 161 444 9 3 3 .993 2.84 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Right Field Inn GS G PO A E DP .985 *2.15 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- RSweeney 486 54 75 136 6 1 0 .993 2.63 EBrown 433 55 55 111 4 3 2 .975 2.39 TBuck 287 34 34 73 2 0 0 1.000 2.35 CGonzalez 160 10 36 43 0 0 0 1.000 2.41 JCust 39 5 5 4 0 0 0 1.000 0.92 ACunningham 18 2 2 6 0 0 0 1.000 2.95 CDenorfia 10 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.80 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Team Total 1435 161 161 375 12 4 2 .990 2.43 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Pitchers Inn GS G PO A E DP .952 *1.60 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- GSmith 190 32 32 7 31 0 1 1.000 1.80 DEveland 168 29 29 5 18 0 2 1.000 1.23 JDuchschere 141 22 22 5 13 0 1 1.000 1.14 JBlanton 127 20 20 14 21 1 4 .972 2.48 RHarden 77 13 13 3 3 0 0 1.000 0.70 DBraden 71 10 19 2 14 1 0 .941 2.01 HStreet 70 0 63 3 8 0 1 1.000 1.41 CGaudin 62 6 26 7 7 4 0 .778 2.01 AEmbree 61 0 70 2 6 0 0 1.000 1.17 BZiegler 59 0 47 0 14 0 2 1.000 2.11 SGallagher 56 11 11 3 6 0 1 1.000 1.43 SCasilla 50 0 51 7 3 0 1 1.000 1.79 JDevine 45 0 42 2 1 0 0 1.000 0.59 JBlevins 37 0 36 0 3 3 1 .500 0.72 ABrown 35 0 31 2 4 0 0 1.000 1.54 GGonzalez 34 7 10 1 5 0 1 1.000 1.59 KFoulke 31 0 31 3 0 0 0 1.000 0.87 DMeyer 27 4 11 0 1 1 0 .500 0.32 KSaarloos 26 1 8 1 4 0 0 1.000 1.71 JOutman 25 4 6 1 2 1 0 .750 1.05 LDiNardo 23 2 11 3 3 0 1 1.000 2.35 KCalero 4 0 5 0 0 0 0 .000 0.00 JGray 4 0 5 1 1 0 0 1.000 3.83 FHernandez 3 0 3 0 1 0 0 1.000 3.00 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Team Total 1435 161 161 72 169 11 16 .956 1.51 -----------+----+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----+----- Des. Hitter G ------------+--- JCust 61 FThomas 53 MSweeney 17 EChavez 8 WBankston 4 EBrown 4 JHannahan 4 KSuzuki 1 ------------+---

Innings Pitched (usually) or Team Games is used in the calculation of the cumulative team Range Factor for a position. This means players (pre-1956) have range factor per game and the team has range factor per nine innings listed.
* indicates Innings Played rather than Games Played was used in Range Factor (RnF) calculations. Team Totals for Innings Played are Innings Pitched by the team's pitchers.

Team Leaders
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Batting Average Suzuki .279

On-base % Cust .375

Slugging % Cust .476

OPS Cust .851

Games Cust and Suzuki 148

At Bats Crosby 556

Plate Appearances (approx.) Crosby 605

Runs Cust 77

Hits Suzuki 148

Total Bases Cust 229

Doubles Crosby 39

Triples Barton 5

Home Runs Cust 33

RBI Cust 77

Bases on Balls Cust 111

Strikeouts Cust 197

Stolen Bases Davis 25

Singles Suzuki 115

Adjusted OPS+ Cust 132

Runs Created Cust 94

Adjusted Batting Runs Cust 26

Batting Wins Cust 2.4

Extra-Base Hits Cust 52

Times on Base Cust 224

Offensive Win% Cust .628

Hit By Pitch Suzuki 11

Sac. Hits Barton 6

Sac. Flies Sweeney 6

Intentional Walks Barton 5

Grounded into Double Plays Suzuki 20

Caught Stealing Davis 6

Power/Speed Number Ellis 12.9

At Bats per Strikeout Suzuki 7.7

At Bats per Home Run Cust 14.6

Outs Crosby 447

Pitching Click for All-Time Franchise Leaders

ERA Smith 4.16

Wins Duchscherer 10

Won-Loss % Duchscherer .556

BB + H per IP (WHIP) Smith 1.345

Hits Allowed/9IP Smith 7.99

Bases on Balls/9IP Smith 4.11

Strikeouts/9IP Eveland 6.32

Games Embree 70

Saves Street 18

Innings Smith 190.3

Strikeouts Eveland 118

Games Started Smith 32

Comp. Games Smith 2

Shutouts Duchscherer 1

Home Runs Allow. Smith 21

Bases On Balls Allow. Smith 87

Hits Allowed Eveland 172

SO to Walk Eveland 1.53

Losses Smith 16

Earned Runs Allow. Smith 88

Wild Pitches Eveland and Casilla 6

Hit Batsmen Eveland 12

Batters Faced Smith 800

Games Finished Street 37

Adjusted ERA+ Smith 97

Requirements to qualify for rate stats.

Salaries

Frank Thomas $ 12,560,000

Eric Chavez $ 11,500,000

Mark Ellis $ 5,000,000

Rich Harden $ 4,750,000

Joe Blanton $ 3,700,000

Bobby Crosby $ 3,550,000

Huston Street $ 3,300,000

Alan Embree $ 3,107,126

Chad Gaudin $ 1,775,000

Emil Brown $ 1,400,000

Justin Duchscherer $ 1,200,000

Kiko Calero $ 1,000,000

Lenny DiNardo $ 900,000

Keith Foulke $ 700,000

Mike Sweeney $ 500,000

Rob Bowen $ 410,000

Jack Cust $ 410,000

Dan Johnson $ 410,000

Travis Buck $ 400,000

Chris Denorfia $ 400,000

Santiago Casilla $ 400,000

Donnie Murphy $ 400,000

Andrew Brown $ 395,000

Dana Eveland $ 395,000

Jack Hannahan $ 395,000

Kurt Suzuki $ 395,000

Ryan Sweeney $ 395,000

Daric Barton $ 390,000

Fernando Hernandez $ 390,000

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, member of SABR.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
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