That 2012 season was great for the A's, but its going to be a lot more tougher now. 
Bobby Melvin and management better call up Jemile Weeks. 
I still have high hopes for him. Coco Crisp & Reddikk have been a great, both played out of their minds down the stretch and in the playoffs, we need them to play like that this season. Angels got all the star power and got heavy hitters on deck. Rangers should still be good. But, I really liked our pitching rotation last season, and hopefully they can keep it up. But, I'm still 
at fat fukk Colon though. But, we even got better even without him, so its whatever. The divisional race in the AL West is going to be a close one for sure, but, we are the Oakland Smoking A's, 
we are ready for anything. 
Here is the spring training schedule:
Feb. 23: Milwaukee Brewers, 12:05 p.m.
Feb. 24: @ Los Angeles Angels, 12:05 p.m.
Feb. 25: Cleveland Indians, 12:05 p.m.
Feb. 26: @ Arizona Diamondbacks, 12:05 p.m.
Feb. 27: Seattle Mariners, 12:05 p.m.
Feb. 28: @ Chicago Cubs, 12:05 p.m.
Mar. 1: San Francisco Giants, 12:05 p.m.
Mar. 2: San Diego Padres, 12:05 p.m.
Mar. 3: @ Colorado Rockies, 12:05 p.m.
Mar. 4: Los Angeles Angels, 12:05 p.m.
Mar. 5: World Baseball Classic Opponent TBD (SS), 12:05 p.m.; @ Kansas City Royals (SS) 12:05 p.m.
Mar. 6: Off Day
Mar. 7: Colorado Rockies, 12:05 p.m.
Mar. 8: @ Seattle Mariners, 12:05 p.m.
Mar. 9: @ Texas Rangers, 12:05 p.m.
Mar. 10: Arizona Diamondbacks, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 11: @ San Diego Padres, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 12: Kansas City Royals, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 13: Off Day
Mar. 14: Texas Rangers, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 15: @ Arizona Diamondbacks, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 16: Seattle Mariners (SS), 1:05 p.m.; @CHICAGO White Sox (SS), 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 17: Chicago Cubs, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 18: Cincinnati Reds, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 19: @ Los Angeles Dodgers, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 20: Off Day
Mar. 21: @ Cincinnati Reds, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 22: Chicago White Sox, 7:05 p.m.
Mar. 23: @ San Francisco Giants, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 24: Los Angeles Dodgers, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 25: @ Milwaukee Brewers, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 26: @ Cleveland Indians, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 27: Colorado Rockies, 1:05 p.m.
Mar. 28: @ San Francisco Giants, 7:15 p.m., AT&T Park
Mar. 29: @ San Francisco Giants, 7:15 p.m., AT&T Park
Mar. 30: San Francisco Giants, 1:05 p.m., Oakland Coliseum
The projected line-ups and rotations for the 2013 season is looking like:
Projected line-up:
1 Coco Crisp OF
2 Jed Lowrie 3B
3 Yoenis Cespedes OF
4 Brandon Moss 1B
5 Josh Reddikk OF
6 Seth Smith DH
7 John Jaso Catcher
8 Scott Sizemore 2B
9 Hiroyuki Nakajima SS
Projected Starting Rotations:
1 Brett Anderson
2 Jarrod Parker
3 Tom Milone
4 A.J. Griffin
5 Bartolo Colon
6 Dan Straily
Opening day:
Mon, 4/1:Mariners 7:05p Anderson (0-0) Hernandez (0-0)
Tue, 4/2:Mariners 7:05p Parker (0-0) Iwakuma (0-0)
Wed, 4/3:Mariners 7:05p Milone (0-0) Saunders (0-0)
Thu, 4/4:Mariners 12:35p Griffin (0-0) Maurer (0-0)
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Chris Young is terrible out there.
and the Angels pitching is questionable.
In that Brewers game, he was striking out and missing the ball really late and badly. It would be a strike, but he would swing like a second later, and have you like 
He literally hits every ball that comes at him, doesn't care about the pitch count or any strategy. If he gets a hit, its usually a good hit and long one, but he strikes off way too often or pops the ball up too often. Does he not listen to Bobby Melvin or the hitting coach at all? He is a a pretty good catcher though, I was initially pissed that they traded Suzuki, but since he got that walk off HR versus the Giants for the win, I haven't really been mad much. But, he practically now is our only primary big hitter now though. Redikk can get HR's and was great, but his defense is more valuable than his offense imo. Yoenis is good, he has some very nice potential.