American League West · 2021
Oakland Athletics 2021
- Team WAR
- 33.4 17.9 bat / 15.5 pitch
- Win %
- .531 pyth .536
- Run diff
- +56 4.59 / 4.24 per g
- wRC+
- 104
- ERA
- 4.22 FIP 4.16
- Home runs
- 185
The Oakland Athletics went 86-76 in 2021, a .531 winning percentage — 13th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 743 runs and allowed 687, a run differential of +56. The offence ranked 10th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.22 staff ERA was 14th of 30. Their 104 team wRC+ was 4% above league average — 8th of 30 in MLB. Matt Olson led the position players at 4.8 WAR, and Frankie Montas the rotation at a 3.37 ERA.
Where the offence comes from
Roster contribution by share of the team total.
Batting
24 players, ranked by dbWAR.
| Matt Olson | 1B | 156 | 673 | 153 | 39 | 111 | 4 | .271 | .371 | .540 | .382 | 150 | 4.8 |
| Tony Kemp | 2B | 119 | 397 | 92 | 8 | 37 | 8 | .279 | .382 | .418 | .356 | 131 | 2.8 |
| Mark Canha | LF | 141 | 625 | 120 | 17 | 61 | 12 | .231 | .358 | .387 | .338 | 119 | 2.8 |
| Matt Chapman | 3B | 151 | 622 | 111 | 27 | 72 | 3 | .210 | .314 | .403 | .315 | 102 | 2.3 |
| Sean Murphy | C | 117 | 448 | 85 | 17 | 59 | 0 | .216 | .306 | .405 | .313 | 100 | 2.0 |
| Ramón Laureano | CF | 88 | 378 | 84 | 14 | 39 | 12 | .246 | .317 | .443 | .330 | 113 | 2.0 |
| Jed Lowrie | 2B | 139 | 512 | 112 | 14 | 69 | 0 | .245 | .318 | .398 | .314 | 101 | 1.0 |
| Seth Brown | RF | 104 | 307 | 60 | 20 | 48 | 4 | .214 | .274 | .480 | .316 | 103 | 0.8 |
| Elvis Andrus | SS | 143 | 541 | 121 | 3 | 37 | 12 | .243 | .294 | .320 | .272 | 71 | 0.4 |
| Chad Pinder | RF | 73 | 233 | 52 | 6 | 27 | 1 | .243 | .300 | .411 | .309 | 98 | 0.4 |
| Sean Manaea | P | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .750 | .532 | 258 | 0.2 |
| Austin Allen | C | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .625 | .358 | 133 | 0.1 |
| James Kaprielian | P | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .292 | 86 | 0.1 |
| Cole Irvin | P | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .175 | 2 | 0.0 |
| Mitch Moreland | DH | 80 | 252 | 52 | 10 | 30 | 0 | .227 | .286 | .415 | .302 | 93 | 0.0 |
| Jake Diekman | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124 | -0.0 |
| Chris Bassitt | P | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124 | -0.0 |
| Frankie Montas | P | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124 | -0.0 |
| Luis Barrera | LF | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .219 | 33 | -0.0 |
| Pete Kozma | SS | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .167 | .091 | .133 | -28 | -0.1 |
| Stephen Piscotty | RF | 67 | 188 | 38 | 5 | 16 | 1 | .220 | .282 | .353 | .281 | 77 | -0.2 |
| Aramis Garcia | C | 31 | 94 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 0 | .205 | .239 | .318 | .244 | 51 | -0.3 |
| Vimael Machín | SS | 14 | 37 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .125 | .200 | .125 | .162 | -8 | -0.4 |
| Skye Bolt | CF | 27 | 60 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | .088 | .103 | .158 | .114 | -43 | -0.8 |
Pitching
24 pitchers, ranked by dbWAR.
| Frankie Montas | 32 | 32 | 187.0 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 207 | 3.37 | 3.37 | 1.18 | 10.0 | 4.1 |
| Chris Bassitt | 27 | 27 | 157.1 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 159 | 3.15 | 3.34 | 1.06 | 9.1 | 3.5 |
| Sean Manaea | 32 | 32 | 179.1 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 194 | 3.91 | 3.66 | 1.23 | 9.7 | 3.3 |
| Cole Irvin | 32 | 32 | 178.1 | 10 | 15 | 0 | 125 | 4.24 | 4.30 | 1.33 | 6.3 | 2.0 |
| James Kaprielian | 24 | 21 | 119.1 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 123 | 4.07 | 4.33 | 1.22 | 9.3 | 1.2 |
| Lou Trivino III | 71 | 0 | 73.2 | 7 | 8 | 22 | 67 | 3.18 | 3.78 | 1.25 | 8.2 | 0.8 |
| Deolis Guerra | 53 | 0 | 65.2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 62 | 4.11 | 3.96 | 1.11 | 8.5 | 0.6 |
| Sergio Romo | 66 | 0 | 61.2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 60 | 4.67 | 4.24 | 1.25 | 8.8 | 0.4 |
| J.B. Wendelken | 46 | 0 | 43.2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 39 | 4.33 | 4.09 | 1.51 | 8.0 | 0.3 |
| Burch Smith | 31 | 0 | 43.1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 5.40 | 4.21 | 1.38 | 5.8 | 0.3 |
| A.J. Puk | 12 | 0 | 13.1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 6.07 | 3.32 | 1.80 | 10.8 | 0.2 |
| Jake Diekman | 67 | 0 | 60.2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 83 | 3.86 | 4.46 | 1.34 | 12.3 | 0.2 |
| Daulton Jefferies | 5 | 1 | 15.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3.60 | 3.97 | 1.00 | 4.8 | 0.2 |
| Reymin Guduan | 11 | 0 | 14.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6.28 | 4.43 | 1.67 | 3.1 | 0.1 |
| Mitch Moreland | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 1.17 | 1.00 | 9.0 | 0.0 |
| Ka'ai Tom | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 3.17 | 1.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Yusmeiro Petit | 78 | 0 | 78.0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 37 | 3.92 | 4.72 | 1.04 | 4.3 | 0.0 |
| Sam Moll | 8 | 0 | 10.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3.48 | 4.91 | 1.26 | 7.0 | -0.0 |
| Paul Blackburn | 9 | 9 | 38.1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 5.87 | 5.47 | 1.62 | 6.1 | -0.1 |
| Domingo Acevedo | 10 | 0 | 11.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3.27 | 6.17 | 1.18 | 7.4 | -0.2 |
| Adam Kolarek | 12 | 0 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8.00 | 7.17 | 2.22 | 4.0 | -0.3 |
| Jordan Weems | 7 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 15.88 | 8.99 | 2.12 | 11.1 | -0.3 |
| Jesús Luzardo | 25 | 18 | 95.1 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 98 | 6.61 | 5.48 | 1.62 | 9.3 | -0.4 |
| Mike Fiers | 2 | 2 | 9.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7.71 | 8.96 | 2.04 | 4.8 | -0.4 |
Attendance
Announced gate at 80 home dates, 2021.
- Average
- 8,768 80 home dates
- Median
- 6,782
- Total
- 701,430
- Best
- 40,133 2021-08-20
- Quietest
- 2,865 2021-05-25
- On the road
- 19,085 what they drew away
By situation
| Split | Games | Avg | Med | Low | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All home | 80 | 8,768 | 6,782 | 2,865 | 40,133 |
| Night | 40 | 8,177 | 5,000 | 2,865 | 40,133 |
| Day | 40 | 9,358 | 7,369 | 3,322 | 36,230 |
| Weekend | 39 | 12,281 | 8,757 | 4,504 | 40,133 |
| Weekday | 41 | 5,426 | 4,508 | 2,865 | 14,856 |
| On the road | 81 | 19,085 | 19,410 | 2,924 | 40,162 |
Through the season
| Month | Games | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Apr | 15 | 5,503 |
| May | 19 | 5,311 |
| Jun | 11 | 5,184 |
| Jul | 9 | 13,686 |
| Aug | 14 | 16,718 |
| Sep | 13 | 7,979 |
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, 2021.
- Regulation
- 3:06 151 games
- All games
- 3:08
- Extra innings
- 3:43 11 of them
- Longest
- 4:24 2021-07-03, 12 inn
- Shortest
- 2:08 2021-04-20
By situation
| Split | Games | Avg | Med | Fastest | Longest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | 162 | 3:08 | 3:06 | 2:08 | 4:24 |
| Regulation | 151 | 3:06 | 3:04 | 2:08 | 4:02 |
| Extra innings | 11 | 3:43 | 3:42 | 3:04 | 4:24 |
| Home | 81 | 3:05 | 3:04 | 2:08 | 4:24 |
| Road | 81 | 3:11 | 3:08 | 2:23 | 4:05 |
| Day | 70 | 3:08 | 3:06 | 2:08 | 4:24 |
| Night | 92 | 3:08 | 3:06 | 2:18 | 4:05 |
Through the season
| Month | Games | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Apr | 15 | 3:06 |
| May | 19 | 3:00 |
| Jun | 11 | 2:56 |
| Jul | 9 | 3:08 |
| Aug | 14 | 3:15 |
| Sep | 13 | 3:06 |
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 186 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.
Oakland Athletics are 86-76, a .531 win rate, while their +56 run differential implies .536. That is essentially in line — the record reflects the run scoring.