.Slap Hitter: Reasons to Watch a Team 10 Games out of first and Falling

The A’s return home from the All-Star Break irrelevant. Double digits behind the Angels and having to leapfrog about a half dozen American League teams, the Athletics will stay in the national eye only as long as the trading deadline, at which point they will be recast as spoiler for the rest of the pennant contenders. As in “the Twins will play three this weekend against a team already out of contention.” Hey, that’s us! The team has two goals near as we can figure; try to hang onto second place, and finish at .500. This weekend will be a fair test of both those tests. Texas is right behind us and the A’s are four games above par, clinging by their fingernails.

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