by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

ANAHEIM–This is the New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter’s last season and you look at Jeter’s numbers and you look at the White Sox shortstop Alexei Ramirez’. Ramirez has better numbers and the Angels shortstop Erick Aybar also has much better numbers than Jeter. Jeter is going to be among those with 3,000 career hits and its going to be tremendous and Jeter will be a first ballot Hall of Famer.

The Oakland A’s have seven All-Stars participating in next week’s All-Star game, second baseman Josh Donaldson,outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, catcher Derek Norris, first baseman Brandon Moss, and pitchers Scott Kazmir and Sean Doolittle, and latest Athletic pitcher Jeff Samardzija. A lot of credit is desereved to A’s manager Bob Melvin he’s the perfect manager for the A’s and Cespedes he’s an All-Star again and he’s from Cuba and he came from a different culture and he made something of himself with this team.

There are other great players who are not going to the All-Star game from the A’s like Brandon Moss, Coco Crisp, by the way Crisp had a second career this season and most people thought that he was at the end of his career. Crisp is one of the best hitter in baseball right now. Billy Beane the A’s general manager not only gets a couple players for his team he gets two of the best pitchers from the National League and from the Cubs.

Samardzija and Josh Hammel had great ERAs for a last place team, now you put them in the middle of his rotation with the A’s but you hate to make a predictions but the A’s are starting to look like a potential American League Championship winner and they could be an amazing World Series team. Something that people in Vegas might feel confident to bet on. I have to go back and A’s manager Bob Melvin has to get a lot of the credit.

The funny thing about this is when was the last time that you saw a pitcher selected for the National League and then gets selected by the American League for the All-Star game in the same year? That’s whats happening to Samardzija he was selected to represent the Cubs and now he going to represent the A’s. The A’s in trading for Samardzija feel like they have the best pitching in the show right now.

The A’s are going to start Hammel this week against the Giants and Hammel is a very good pitcher and it’s really exciting news around baseball and the biggest story is the A’s right now. Now the A’s are not only getting one great pitcher but they ended up trading for two great pitchers. It was the biggest surprise that they were able to get the two top pitchers from the Cubs. You would think they would be able to only get one pitcher but they ended up getting two.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish TV voice for Angels baseball and does News and Commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com