A’s Continue to Trade Off Players!

Joe Blanton

Just when A’s fans had thought that they were threw with trading away their star players after losing their best pitcher, Rich Harden to the Chicago Cubs, another Oakland A’s player, Joe Blanton, was traded away to the Philadelphia Phillies last Thursday. The move left many fans wondering which player is going to be next and also when will this “moneyball” strategy stop. The A’s have slowly turned into a professional team that develops great players only to eventually trade them away to a better team. Going into the break, the A’s were in the playoff race, but now that they traded away two of their aces they immediately pulled themselves out of the hunt. It is very frustrating for Bay Area A’s fans to support the team because as soon as they build a relationship with a player, they end up being traded to another team. And now rumor has it that the A’s Closer, Huston Street, is allegedly being pursued by both the Chicago White Sox and the L.A. Dodgers. If the A’s keeps up this strategy of getting rid of their players, there eventually going to have no more fans rooting for them!!

Rich Harden