April Deadweight: Separating The Wheat From The Chaff

“That should be good for a 6-4-3 Hundley!”If you didn’t know that the A’s April roster had a slew of “chaff” on it, perhaps the somewhat deflating ( a much nicer word than “embarrassing”) sweep at the hands of the Toronto Blue Jays put an exclamation point on the word.

However, as astonishing as the number of “currently bad, maybe always bad” players are on the current 25 man roster, some of them are good players who are having a bad run, some of them are good ideas that just haven’t worked out so far, and some are, well, just bad players, bad ideas, or both.

Let’s start by listing the breathtaking number of players who are contributing negatively to the Oakland A’s the first month of the…