This is a Great E-Mail From the Athleticscast Mailbag

Jack from San Francisco writes:
Let me be the first to start the Trade-Matt-Holliday-Before-It’s-Too-Late group. How long will the A’s front office wait until they dump off Holliday to another team that thinks he will be of benefit to them? In 66 ABs this year, Holliday has only 16 hits (.242 BA) 4 Runs, only 5 extra base hits and 0 HRs!!! These may be encouraging numbers for someone like Travis Buck or Rajai Davis but this is the 2007 runner up NL MVP. He is not in any way living up to his hype and it proves that hitting in Coors Field drastically inflated his numbers. Did Billy Beane even look at his career home/away splits? Career numbers in Coors Field are as follows… 84 HRs, 210 Extra Base Hits, 314 RBI, .354 BA, and 1.057 OPS. Very good numbers, right?!? Now check out his away numbers… 44 HRs, 134 Extra Base Hits, 180 RBI, .280 BA, and .798 OPS!
Despite this drastic lack of production thus far with the A’s I’m actually willing to forgive this…
Here is something I’m not willing to forgive http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/24/SPJ91783PC.DTL
According to the Chronicle this past weekend during the most recent road trip to NY, reporters asked Holliday if he’d like to be a Yankee. Instead of responding properly by saying something like, “That’s not something I’m thinking about right now, I absolutely respect the Yankees organization and admire their rich history and incredible fan base but right now, I’m only focused on one thing and that is winning games with my current team, the Oakland Athletics.” But NO that’s not what he said.
Holliday responded, “I think a little bit, you can’t help but to think that if the Yankees are interested I would definitely consider it…I think I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t be interested, especially with the Yankees being such a storied franchise.”
Matt Holliday, have a little respect for the organization that pays you millions of dollars to put up mediocre numbers. Have a little respect for your teammates who go out everyday and try to make up for your lack of production. And have a little respect for A’s fans who, despite a recession still pay high ticket prices to support you the rest of the Athletics team.
Matt Holliday, go cash your checks somewhere else, there’s no need for you to be in an A’s uniform. Matt Holliday, go play for the Yankees, That is where you belong; with a team that will overpay for you to play as an individual and not a member of a team. Oh and don’t forget to tag homeplate on your way out of town.
Jordan from Athleticscast:
This is a very disappointing thing to hear straight from the mouth of Matt Holliday. I was really hoping that he would be a part of this team that may be able to contend for the division title. Unfortunately, this seems like he is mentally not fully committed to being an Oakland Athletic. There is a lot of pride that comes from putting this uniform on as well. While the Yankees are a very storied franchise, there is no excuse for Holliday to be acting this way. If he wants to be a Yankee, he had better start producing. And hopefully that production nets us some good value in the trade market, as well as a few more wins. I have been pushed away from the slight hope that we could some way resign Holliday, and at this point, with that attitude, I would rather the team save the money. Thanks for a great find and good stats Jack!
That’s How I See It…Let’s Go Oakland!!!!










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