Well, effectively grading the A’s on their performance so far is like giving out report cards when half of the class has been out for most of the semester with mono. There will be a lot of incompletes in here, just due to the ridiculous use of the DL, so bear with us.
We don’t think the following players can be fairly graded based on their shortened (or non-existent) seasons so far, so we’re assigning them a grade of INC, based on small sample size:
Milton Bradley
Justin Duchscherer
Chris Snelling
Rich Harden
Estaban Loaiza
Mark Kotsay
Bobby Kielty
Hiram Bocachica
Colby Lewis
Danny Putnam
Javier Hererra
Donnie Murphy
Erasmo Ramirez
Connor Robertson
Dallas Braden
Now, for the rest of the Oakland team, which is hovering right around the .500 mark, a pretty incredible feat considering the list above: