Preview: Seattle @ Oakland … again?

Wait, didn’t I just do this … yeah I thought so too.

Well things are crazy here for the next few days. I am actually taking this weekend completely off so while you may think that I’ve been taking days off because there hasn’t been much site activity it usually means that I’m working on writing one out or Griffin is or maybe we both are or even heaven forbid we both are on vacations.

Of course the expansion of the rosters has meant that they can activate a few guys off the DL as well as bring up a few guys that we didn’t see last time. But with the exception of game one starter Brett Tomko they are throwing the exact same rotation at us a second time (and vice versa). 

I don’t expect another sweep. But, it would be cool.

Position Players

Pos	Mariners	WAR	wOBA		Pos	Athletics	WAR	wOBA
	Catchers					Catchers
C	Rob Johnson	0.4	0.281		C	Kurt Suzuki	1.9	0.316
C	Kenji Johjima	0.4	0.281		C	Landon Powell	0.5	0.322
	Infielders					Infielders
2b	Jose Lopez	1.6	0.32		1b	Tommy Everidge	-0.2	0.295
3b	Jack Hannahan	0.6	0.301		2b	Mark Ellis	0.7	0.321
SS	Jack Wilson	0.1	0.239		3b	Adam Kennedy	1.5	0.333
	Josh Wilson	0.4	0.338		SS	Cliff Pennington	0.3	0.285
ANY	Bill Hall	0.2	0.257		1b	Daric Barton	-0.1	0.275
1b	Mike Carp	0	0.325		1b/DL	Nomar Garciaparra	-0.4	0.295
3b	Adrian Beltre	1.2	0.3			Bobby Crosby
	Outfielders					Outfielders
of	Ichiro Suzuki	4.3	0.372		of	Rajai Davis	3	0.36
of	Franklin Gutierrez	4.7	0.337		of	Scott Hairston	0.6	0.311
of	Michael Saunders	-0.2	0.233		of	Ryan Sweeney	2.1	0.349
of	Ryan Langerhans	0.5	0.297			Eric Patterson
	DH					DH
DH	Ken Griffey Jr.	0.1	0.322		DH	Jack Cust	0.4	0.31
	Mike Sweeney	-0.1	0.321

I expect walks… walks, and more walks.

Nothing especially new in the line up besides the addition of Mike Carp and he may or may not get any starts this weekend.

Starting Pitchers

Thursday: Brett Tomoko vs. Ian Snell

Friday: Vince Mazzaro vs. Ryan Rowland-Smith

Saturday: Brett Anderson vs. Luke French

Sunday: Gio Gonzalez vs. Doug Fister

 Like I said pretty much the same exact line up of pitchers being sent out.

 Relief Pitchers

And more of the same …

Notes: I know this wasn’t really a comprehensive preview but if you really want to see one .. just hit this up.