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Its about that time of the season, when the A's start to heat up. This year however, I'm just not feeling it. I dont think this team has the makeup to make the playoffs this year... but knowing our team, I'm willing to give it a chance. But here are 3 options:

#1 Wait it out and hope we get hot

Rich Harden has been out for most of the year and is working his way back into the rotation as we speak. Swisher, Chavez, Crosby, and Kotsay have all underperformed, and our bullpen has been a wreck of injuries. It can't possibly be this bad all year, right? Huston Street comes back from the DL soon, Mike Piazza will be back soon as well. With a streak at the right time, we're right back in this.

#2 Sell off our older, good assets

Look, we may as well cash in our chips while we can and make a strong run for some young players while we can. We have some good vets (Shannon Stewart, Mike Piazza) and some good bit players for playoff teams (Kendall, Kotsay, Johnson, Kennedy, Loaiza, Embree, Calero). We also have still young and still potentially good/great players in Eric Chavez and Dan Johnson. Our core consists of Dan Haren, Chad Gaudin (now), Nick Swisher, Travis Buck, Kurt Suzuki, Huston Street, and Jack Cust. Waiting in the wings are Daric Barton, Chris Denorfia, Dan Meyer and Chris Snelling. Why try now when the future looks oh so good?

#3 Make a big trade and get back in the race

Remember all those future assets? Maybe we can package one or two into getting the big bopper we need on offense. Maybe we can Beane ourselves another Jermaine Dye. Who knows? With our GM, we can never be certain - but we do usually come out on top. We usually have a roster shakeup when things get dicey, and it usually works. Get on it Billy!

I voted for option 2... while I'm not excited about our team now, I sure am about the future...

We will need to win the division if we want to make the playoffs. The Angels are seven games over .500 against the division and we continue to play awful. I believe we can catch the Angels but its going to take a healthy team and for our players to give their best effort. I question the effort some of our players are giving and that includes the veterans.

I would love for us to move some of our veterans for some prospects while trying to stay competitive for the rest of the season. I guess I can dream!

I like option 2. But I do not see that happening...

talk about overrating the a's future.

oakfanintheeast wrote:talk about overrating the a's future.

Was ruthlessly pandering to each option

I say the 2nd option. The reason is. We can't make the playoffs this year with all of the injuries we are having. It just can't happen. it's nice to see that Eric Chavez finished going into the All Star game pretty good, but we have to much injuries to be a playoff team. I think we should trade our older guys who aren't doing as well and get younger and just let those guys play this year and become good, then by the time of the beginning of next we are a very strong and young team., which makes the playoffs.