Oakland A's

Rotisserie Baseball Musing: Oakland A's

Back on February 23, I severely criticized the trades Billy Beane made (link above).

With Dotel's injury, I must pour sand in the wound. Beane should have dealt him, too. This smacks of hindsight, but I did predict the apparency of a lost 2005 would be May 1st, and that would have pre-dated Dotel's injury (DL on 5/17). Not to mention Hawkin's struggles in Chicago (4/24 2nd blown save in a row) and Benitez's injury in SF (DL on 4/27).

There was no better time to strike, but Beane whiffed. (Just like he did in his playing career.) ((Ouch.))

But he can attempt to redeem himself, if that is possible while playing the likes of Mark Ellis, Marcus Scutaro and Frank Menechino at 2B while dealing Mark Bellhorn and throwing Esteban German away without giving him the opportunity to play over the likes of the Three Stinkos.

Back on track. He should preempt KC and deal Hatteberg or Durazo to Anaheim for one of their middle infield prospects (Callaspo, Aybar, Wood, Izturis.....), and a way to improve his hitters would be to send Zito there, too.