Dull loss tonight? No baseball tomorrow? This is dire. It calls for some eyeball analysis of the first 10 games, in which we have learned, well, nothing about the AL West. Except that Nelson Cruz homers a lot, but we kind of already knew that.
Tyler Clippard has not been razor sharp so far with the A's, not in spring training and not so far in the regular season. It's not that he's been terrible but he has yet to show himself to be the pretty dominant pitcher he has been since 2009. My eyes tell me why, and a quick look at Fangraphs seems to back up what I see.