by Charlie O Mallonee

The Oakland A’s are off to an okay start it’s not like the Royals and Tigers 11-3 but you look at the start historically the teams that jump out to the these quick starts aren’t necessarily there at the end of the season and the A’s are off to the kind of start that is alright and where they want to be and be in game competition for their division at the end of the season.

Right now the A’s are 7-7 their in second place their just a half game behind Houston 7-6 that’s right I said Houston whose in first place in the American League West. The impression were getting right now is that the A.L. West is going to be competitive but nobody is going to run away with it. That already seems to be sorting itself out after 13-14 games.

The A’s are off to a pretty good start they split the opening four game series with the Rangers, they lost a series with the Mariners, they came back and won the three game series with the Astros and then they lost the series with the Royals. To start the season and to be there with this long road trip matter of fact their going to go on a long road trip starting May 1st for ten games.

The A’s opened the four game series with the Angels Monday night with a 6-3 win they had some good things there, Sam Fuld had one hit and scored two runs. Stephen Vogt scored a run, you had Billy Butler coming through again who went 2-3, the most important thing in that game last night was the bullpen who came through.

Starter Kendall Graveman didn’t have a great start he went three innings, four hits and three runs, the bullpen had to come on and Dan Otero in relief had four great innings he gave up just one hit and came away with the victory. That was a great situation for the A’s. The A’s offense is off to a great start. What we’ve seen the A’s are either going to score runs or their not going to score runs.

It’s going to be that on off, on off, kind of thing like they won by three on Monday and they trailed much of Tuesday night’s game behind the Angels. It’s going to depend when they ultimately seal their fate, right now as a club their hitting .235 and have scored 22 runs over the last six games. It contrasts that in their first eight games they were hitting .306 with 51 runs.

Charlie O talks A’s baseball each Tuesday night at http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below