The Oakland A’s played their 41st game of the year Thursday night, which means they officially passed the one-quarter point of their 162-game season. Time for a progress report!
First, the big picture. The A’s are 18-23, neither good nor awful, which is right in the neighborhood of what we should have been reasonably expecting. However, they’ve been excellent at home (12-8) and miserable on the road (6-15), which is a development worth watching. Unfortunately it all adds up to last place in the current standings, but on the bright side they’re still only 3.5 games out of second in the tightly packed AL West.