{"id":5865,"date":"2012-10-02T09:20:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2012-10-02T12:36:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T19:36:02","slug":"oakland-as-are-in-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2012\/10\/oakland-as-are-in-the-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland A&#8217;s are in the playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/125_1131-oakland-athletics-panorama.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/125_1131-oakland-athletics-panorama-800x241.jpg\" alt=\"oracle o.co coliseum panorama oakland a&#039;s\" title=\"oakland athletics panorama\" width=\"800\" height=\"241\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/125_1131-oakland-athletics-panorama-800x241.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/125_1131-oakland-athletics-panorama-250x75.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Has a more unlikely team than the 2012 Oakland Athletics ever made it to the postseason before? <\/p>\n<p>Consider this&#8230;<br \/>\nThey have the lowest payroll in the American League.<br \/>\nTheir starting rotation consists entirely of rookies.<br \/>\nThe rest of the team is made up of rookies and castoffs (players not wanted by other teams).<br \/>\nThere really isn&#8217;t a single player who could be considered a &#8220;star&#8221;&#8211;let alone superstar.<br \/>\nThey have the lowest team batting average in all of Major League Baseball.<br \/>\nThe Anaheim Angels spent three times as much as the A&#8217;s, and it bought them third place in a four team division.<br \/>\nThe Boston Red Sox spent even more than the Angels, and it bought them fourth place in a five team division.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, despite all of this, the Oakland A&#8217;s have the best record in <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/tag\/baseball\/>baseball<\/a> since July and are heading to the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo is of the Oakland Coliseum (now called the O.Co)&#8211;considered the worst stadium in MLB, it&#8217;s my favorite place to be. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n<p>I took this panorama back in May (when no one believed the A&#8217;s would be in their current position). Brandon McCarthy was pitching and Prince Fielder was at bat for the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has a more unlikely team than the 2012 Oakland Athletics ever made it to the postseason before? Consider this&#8230; They have the lowest payroll in the American League. Their starting rotation consists entirely of rookies. The rest of the team is made up of rookies and castoffs (players not wanted by other teams). There really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87,10],"tags":[164,144,160,181,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5872,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions\/5872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}