The Oakland Athletics went 76-86 in 2007, a .469 winning percentage — 19th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 741 runs and allowed 758, a run differential of -17. The offence ranked 20th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.41 staff ERA was 15th of 30. Their 103 team wRC+ was 3% above league average — 10th of 30 in MLB. Jack Cust led the position players at 3.5 WAR, and Joe Blanton the rotation at a 3.95 ERA.
The 2007 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the AL West, 18 games back. They spent 9 of 183 days in first place, led by as many as 2 games on April 20 and were as far as 19 games back on September 29. Their best month was August at 17-12, their worst July at 9-18. The longest runs were a 5-game winning streak from June 2 to June 6 and a 9-game losing streak from July 6 to July 17. They were 40-41 at home and 36-45 on the road, 25-24 in one-run games and 38-46 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 17-3 at the Royals on May 10; the heaviest defeat, 14-3 at the Devil Rays on August 25.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
12
13
.480
95
89
+6
May
14
13
.519
134
110
+24
June
15
13
.536
120
111
+9
July
9
18
.333
109
143
-34
August
17
12
.586
151
153
-2
Sept/Oct
9
17
.346
132
152
-20
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
40-41
.494
Road
36-45
.444
One-run games
25-24
.510
Extra innings
11-5
.688
Within the division
24-33
.421
Against .500+ clubs
38-46
.452
Decided by 5+ runs
22-17
.564
Last 10
2-8
.200
American League West standings, 2007
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League West, 2007. Games back of the best record in the division.
The players whose season belongs to this club, by position and then by dbWAR. A player traded mid-season is listed with the club he played most of his games for, so a deadline arrival may appear on his other club’s page instead.
Each rectangle is a player, sized by his share of the team's hits; darker means a larger share. Top 30 contributors. Select a different statistic above, or click a player for his page.
Day and night divide the home schedule, and so do weekend and weekday. The road line is a different question.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Low
High
All home
81
23,726
23,440
12,477
35,077
Night
48
22,754
20,214
12,477
35,077
Day
33
25,140
25,552
14,683
35,077
Weekend
39
26,450
26,445
15,388
35,077
Weekday
42
21,197
19,924
12,477
35,077
On the road
81
32,710
34,611
9,444
54,266
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
24,032
May
13
23,050
Jun
13
26,812
Jul
15
22,828
Aug
15
23,134
Sep
12
22,647
By season
Announced gate — tickets distributed, which is the figure every reference publishes and is not the same as people through the turnstile. A game the feed reports no gate for is left out rather than counted as empty. Seasons before attendance was carried into the lake are absent from the trend rather than shown as zero.
Game time
First pitch to final out across 162 completed games, 2007.
Regulation
2:48
146 games
All games
2:53
Extra innings
3:40
16 of them
Longest
4:25
2007-04-14, 13 inn
Shortest
1:47
2007-04-25
By situation
Regulation and extra innings divide the season, and so do home and road. Day and night overlap both.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Fastest
Longest
All
162
2:53
2:52
1:47
4:33
Regulation
146
2:48
2:49
1:47
4:08
Extra innings
16
3:40
3:39
3:01
4:33
Home
81
2:50
2:48
1:47
4:25
Road
81
2:57
2:57
2:08
4:33
Day
58
2:52
2:51
2:07
4:08
Night
104
2:54
2:53
1:47
4:33
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
2:46
May
13
2:52
Jun
13
2:47
Jul
15
2:43
Aug
15
2:55
Sep
12
2:57
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 168 minutes this season.
Elapsed time from first pitch to final out. The feed does not itemise delays, so a rain delay is inside these numbers with no way to subtract it. Games called early are excluded — five innings in ninety-three minutes is not a short game — but they still count in attendance, because the crowd turned up.
Record versus run differential
Oakland Athletics are 76-86, a .469 win rate, while their -17 run differential implies .490. That is about 3 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
