OAK @ TOR, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Game Preview

Oakland Athletics, 4-4, 1st, Tied	SP: (, RHP, 0-0, undef) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS inf +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.TOR Has never faced TOR.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 3-4 Road: 1-0 ExtrInn: 0-1 vsRHP: 2-2 vsLHP: 2-2 1-Run: 1-3 vsEast: 2-3 vsCntrl: 2-1 vsWest: 0-0 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 8 Tue, Apr 8 @TOR W 9-8 4-4 1st Tied 7 Sun, Apr 6 CLE L 1-2 3-4 1st Tied 6 Sat, Apr 5 CLE W 6-1 3-3 1st Tied 5 Fri, Apr 4 CLE W 6-3 2-3 1st Tied 4 Wed, Apr 2 BOS L 0-5 1-3 1st Tied 3 Tue, Apr 1 BOS L 1-2 1-2 1st Tied 2 Wed, Mar 26 BOS W 5-1 1-1 1st Tied 1 Tue, Mar 25 BOS L 5-6 (10) 0-1 1st Tied Last 10: 4-4 Last 20: 4-4 Last 30: 4-4
Toronto Blue Jays, 4-3, 1st, Tied	SP: Dustin McGowan (26, RHP, 0-0, 3.00) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-0) 6 4 2 2 3 4 0 3.00 2007 (12-10) 169.2 146 80 77 61 144 14 4.08 2006 (1-2) 27.1 35 27 22 25 22 2 7.24 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 4-2 46.1 34 20 19 16 45 2 3.69 58 2008-04-03 NYY ND 6 4 2 2 3 4 0 99 57 2007-09-28 TBD W 6 6 4 3 2 6 2 93 50 2007-09-23 NYY L 4.1 6 6 6 6 5 0 112 26 2007-09-17 BOS W 9 5 1 1 0 9 0 122 82 2007-09-12 NYY L 5 3 4 4 3 6 0 99 48 2007-09-07 TBD W 8 4 2 2 1 12 0 110 77 2007-09-01 SEA W 8 6 1 1 1 3 0 102 68 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.OAK 1-1 16.1 14 8 8 10 15 0 4.41 51 2007-08-21 OAK ND 5 5 3 3 4 7 0 95 48 2007-07-04 OAK W 7 4 0 0 2 4 0 101 71 2006-07-29 OAK L 4.1 5 5 5 4 4 0 78 33
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 3-1 Road: 1-2 ExtrInn: 0-0 vsRHP: 4-3 vsLHP: 0-0 1-Run: 0-3 vsEast: 4-2 vsCntrl: 0-0 vsWest: 0-1 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 7 Tue, Apr 8 OAK L 8-9 4-3 1st Tied 6 Sun, Apr 6 BOS W 7-4 4-2 1st Tied 5 Sat, Apr 5 BOS W 10-2 3-2 1st Tied 4 Fri, Apr 4 BOS W 6-3 2-2 1st Tied 3 Thu, Apr 3 @NYY L 2-3 1-2 1st Tied 2 Wed, Apr 2 @NYY W 5-2 1-1 1st Tied 1 Tue, Apr 1 @NYY L 2-3 0-1 2nd 0.5 gb Last 10: 4-3 Last 20: 4-3 Last 30: 4-3
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Tue, Apr 08, 2008 OAK 9 @TOR 8 W:Alan Embree (1-1), L: Jeremy Accardo (0-1), S: Huston Street (1) Wed, Aug 29, 2007 OAK 5 TOR 4 (11) W:Ruddy Lugo , L: Jason Frasor , S: none Tue, Aug 28, 2007 TOR 5 @OAK 4 W:Brian Wolfe , L: Andrew Brown , S: Casey Janssen Mon, Aug 27, 2007 TOR 6 @OAK 2 (12) W:Jeremy Accardo , L: Alan Embree , S: none Wed, Aug 22, 2007 OAK 4 @TOR 1 W:Esteban Loaiza , L: A.J. Burnett , S: Alan Embree Tue, Aug 21, 2007 OAK 6 @TOR 4 W:Danny Haren , L: Brian Tallet , S: Huston Street Mon, Aug 20, 2007 OAK 6 @TOR 4 W:Joe Blanton , L: Shaun Marcum , S: Huston Street Wed, Jul 04, 2007 TOR 10 @OAK 3 W:Dustin McGowan , L: Joe Kennedy , S: none Tue, Jul 03, 2007 OAK 3 TOR 1 W:Joe Blanton , L: Jesse Litsch , S: none Mon, Jul 02, 2007 TOR 11 @OAK 7 W:Josh Towers , L: Lenny DiNardo , S: none Season Series: 2008 - OAK leads 1-0; 2007 - OAK won 5-4; 2006 - OAK won 6-4; All-Time - OAK leads 184-151

Key for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids on the next pageKey for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids Below

Batter vs. Pitcher totals are career totals. All others are year-to-date.

PA - Plate Appearances (AB+BB+HBP+SH+SF+CI)
BF - Batters Faced
BA - Batting Average
OBP - On-Base Percentage
SLG - Slugging Percentage
Last 28d - PA and OPS in the last 28 days.
SB/CS - Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing
HR/E - Home Runs and Errors Made
ERA-K/9 - Earned Run Average and SO per 9 IP
Total - Team totals for those categories.
Usage - See the note below the grid. OPS - On-Base Percentage + Slugging Percentage (a good single number for measuring a player's hitting, avg. is .750 or so)
RA/G & RS/G - Runs scored and allowed per game.
PA/vRH - Plate Appearances overall/PA's vs. Right-handed Pitchers
Catcher Def. - Catcher Defense with each catcher's Stolen Bases, Caught Stealings, and Passed Balls allowed.
G/S/vB or G/S/vP - Links to the player's 2008 gamelogs, splits, or career batter vs. pitcher results
vLH/vRH - OPS vs. left-handed pitchers and vs. right-handed pitchers
Hm or Rd, Home or Road - OPS or OPS allowed in home or road games.
OF G: LF / CF / RF - A - Outfielders with the games played by position and their total number of assists
vs LHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against left-handed batters
vs RHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against right-handed batters
HR/SB/CS - Pitcher's Home Runs, Stolen Bases and Caught Stealings allowed

MLB Best, Middle, Worst

For the 2007 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

NYY 5.98

BAL 4.67

WSN 4.15

RA/G

BOS 4.06

KCR 4.80

TBD 5.83

M. Ordonez .363

J. Francoeur .293

J. LaRue .148

OBP

B. Bonds .480

J. Varitek .367

J. LaRue .240

SLG

C. Ross .653

T. Tulowitzki .479

A. Gonzalez .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez 1.067

G. Sheffield .839

J. LaRue .512

ERA

J. Peavy 2.54

A. Pettitte 4.05

S. Olsen 5.81

K/9IP

E. Bedard 10.93

G. Meche 6.50

A. Cook 3.31

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Oakland Athletics Batters (4.13 RS/G) vs. Toronto Blue Jays Pitchers (3.71 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 29.McGowan
G/S/vB 49.Accardo
G/S/vB 37.Downs*
G/S/vB 54.Frasor
G/S/vB 22.League
G/S/vB 56.Tallet*
G/S/vB 59.Wells
G/S/vB 40.Wolfe
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/no AB ··· ··· 84/50 .347/.429/.639/1.067 1.034/1.087 1.333 / 1/0 4/0

18.Bowen# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 188/132 .231/.344/.372/.716 .774/.690 .867 / 1/2 4/5

8.Brown G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.000 4/.000 4/.250 1/.000 ··· ··· 397/237 .257/.300/.347/.647 .823/.529 .652 / 12/2 6/6

6.Buck* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 334/260 .288/.377/.474/.850 1.005/.805 .946 / 4/1 7/0

7.Crosby G/S/vP 4/.833 3/.000 3/.333 8/.250 1/no AB 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 374/268 .226/.278/.341/.619 .647/.608 .588 / 10/2 8/14

32.Cust* G/S/vP 6/.333 2/.500 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 1/5.000 507/344 .256/.408/.504/.912 .786/.971 .779 / 0/2 26/4

19.Denorfia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

14.Ellis G/S/vP 9/.944 3/1.000 1/.000 7/.500 4/.250 2/.000 ··· 4/.000 642/470 .276/.336/.441/.777 .984/.704 .806 / 9/4 19/5

22.Hannahan* G/S/vP 2/1.000 2/1.000 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 169/130 .278/.369/.424/.793 1.050/.712 .779 / 1/0 3/3

11.Johnson* G/S/vP 6/.500 3/.666 4/1.500 5/.800 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 495/316 .236/.349/.418/.768 .783/.758 .796 / 0/0 18/4

12.Murphy G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 132/85 .220/.290/.441/.731 .968/.595 .770 / 1/0 6/5

24.Suzuki G/S/vP 2/.000 3/1.334 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 248/187 .249/.327/.408/.735 .623/.772 .755 / 0/0 7/2

5.Sweeney G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 4/.833 2/1.000 3/.667 2/.500 ··· ··· 289/198 .260/.315/.404/.719 .822/.672 .757 / 0/0 7/1

15.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· 1/4.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 49/43 .200/.265/.333/.599 .500/.612 .656 / 0/1 1/0

IP 169.2 67.1 58.0 57.0 11.2 62.1 45.1 TOTAL .235/.321/.360/.681 .625/.718 .952 .681 1/1 5/4

ERA-K/9

4.08/7.6

2.14/7.6

2.17/8.8

4.58/9.3

6.17/5.4

3.47/7.8

/0.0

2.98/4.4

3.69/5.9

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Bowen (34-5-3)
Suzuki (29-7-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 705/.230 275/.206 239/.223 242/.220 58/.380 267/.215 / 174/.224 .249 Brown
Buck
Sweeney
Cust 78/0/21/8
18/5/65/3
11/3/0/1
14/0/48/1

OPS .644 .558 .592 .631 .968 .611 .643 .727

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 377/.758 137/.419 126/.548 113/.721 27/1.190 106/.697 / 75/1.023 .750

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 328/.514 138/.697 113/.639 129/.556 31/.766 161/.555 / 99/.356 .700

Home 345/.601 127/.495 131/.525 123/.623 28/1.055 129/.481 / 93/.639 .760

Last 28d days / / / / / / / /

HR/SB/CS 14/29/1 4/10/1 3/0/1 3/5/2 1/0/1 1/9/1 // 5/0/0 6/0/2

Usage ·····X·· X·X·o·X· ·····o·o ···X···· X······· X··oo·X· ···o···· X··X·o··

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Toronto Blue Jays Batters (5.71 RS/G) vs. Oakland Athletics Pitchers (3.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 59.Brown
G/S/vB 25.DiNardo*
G/S/vB 41.Embree*
G/S/vB 29.Foulke
G/S/vB 44.Casilla
G/S/vB 20.Street
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

20.Barajas G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 1/.000 5/1.200 147/106 .230/.352/.393/.745 .916/.685 .644 / 0/1 4/0

21.Coats* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 38/27 .206/.263/.324/.587 1.345/.273 .375 / 0/0 0/1

11.Eckstein G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/1.000 6/.533 ··· 1/.000 484/339 .309/.356/.382/.739 .709/.752 .816 / 10/1 3/20

2.Hill G/S/vP 3/1.667 12/2.450 4/1.250 6/.666 1/.000 7/.715 657/503 .291/.333/.459/.792 .916/.753 .836 / 4/3 17/14

6.McDonald G/S/vP ··· 9/.444 3/.333 8/.625 2/.000 1/.000 353/260 .251/.279/.333/.612 .818/.539 .624 / 7/2 1/9

17.Overbay* G/S/vP 5/1.200 7/.000 2/.000 3/1.000 1/.000 3/2.667 476/361 .240/.315/.391/.706 .794/.676 .658 / 2/0 10/5

15.Rios G/S/vP 4/.500 9/1.431 10/.600 7/.715 ··· 4/.833 711/545 .297/.354/.498/.852 1.022/.802 .842 / 17/4 24/7

19.Scutaro G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 4/1.500 ··· ··· 379/282 .260/.332/.361/.693 .861/.637 .653 / 2/1 7/14

24.Stairs* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 5/1.000 11/1.031 ··· 5/1.800 405/352 .289/.368/.549/.917 .818/.931 .918 / 2/1 21/6

23.Stewart G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 12/1.310 ··· 3/.000 630/444 .290/.345/.394/.739 .699/.756 .629 / 11/3 12/4

35.Thomas G/S/vP 2/1.500 5/1.100 6/2.000 2/5.000 ··· 4/.000 624/480 .277/.377/.480/.857 1.062/.796 .944 / 0/0 26/

10.Wells G/S/vP 2/.000 12/1.227 20/.906 17/.301 2/.500 10/.500 642/492 .245/.304/.402/.706 .835/.668 .700 / 10/4 16/3

9.Zaun# G/S/vP 2/.500 6/1.000 9/1.194 11/.384 1/.000 7/.143 391/304 .242/.341/.411/.752 .797/.739 .856 / 0/0 10/8

IP 41.2 131.1 68.0 50.2 50.0 TOTAL .265/.336/.419/.755 1.091/.738 .837 .755 7/3 8/3

ERA-K/9

4.54/9.3

4.11/4.0

3.97/6.8

/0.0

4.44/9.2

2.88/11.3

3.33/7.9

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Barajas (12-7-1)
Zaun (73-13-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 178/.245 555/.278 284/.258 / 219/.224 199/.190 .252 Rios
Wells
Stewart
Stairs
Coats
Scutaro 0/22/147/11
0/148/0/5
139/6/0/4
43/0/17/3
5/2/5/2
6/0/4/0

OPS .691 .750 .681 .676 .543 .713

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 75/.667 116/.835 80/.581 / 79/.695 97/.702 .656

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 103/.709 439/.727 204/.720 / 140/.665 102/.400 .752

Road 85/.720 249/.833 143/.788 / 117/.810 100/.581 .929

Last 28d days / / / / / /

HR/SB/CS 1/3/0 13/3/3 5/4/1 // 6/9/0 5/5/2 9/2/1

Usage X·oX··o· ······X· X·o·o·X· o··XX··X ··o·X·oX X···X·X·

Usage -- each character represents the number of pitches thrown by the pitcher for yesterday, two days ago, three days ago, ...., up to eight days ago:
· - did not pitch; o - less than 16 pitches; X - at least 16 pitches (the median relief outing)
An Example ( ·X···o·X ): Yesterday off, 16 or more pitches, three days off, less than 16 pitches, day off, 16 or more pitches (8 days ago). Yesterday is in bold for improved scanning.

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Game Preview: OAK @ TOR, 7:07pm, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 @Rogers Centre

SP: (, RHP, 0-0, undef)

SP: Dustin McGowan (26, RHP, 0-0, 3.00)

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