August 15, 2007
Upper Cust
Jack Cust homered twice last night as the Oakland Athletics defeated the Chicago White Sox 4-3. That gives Cust twenty home runs in eighty three games. With a .404 OBA and a .550 slugging percentage, Cust is having a great half season. As I've said many times, if you have a problem at first base or DH, it should be easy to fix. There's always a Jack Cust sitting out there.
Correction: The A's played the White Sox last night.
Posted by David Pinto at
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I don't know that finding a .954 OPS is an "easy fix." Those kind of numbers don't grow on trees. There are only four qualifying batters in the entire AL with a better OPS than Cust. And he gets no help at all from his pitcher-favoring park (96/97 on the baseball reference indexes).
But a number of clubs could sure use an upgade at DH, even if they don't find a guy with a .954 OPS. Six teams are getting a .729 OPS or worse from their DH's. It seems like they could rustle up somebody from the minors or Japan or Mars who could hit better than that.
That must have been some home run if it helped the A's beat a team they weren't even playing...
