I had some fun browsing BP's stats today, looking at how badly the A's suck.

• The A's playoff odds have dropped to 6.78%. In their simulations, they now average 68.5 wins.
   
  
• The Orioles lead MLB in adjusted equivalent runs with 210. The Marlins are next-to-last at 144. The A's? 127.
   
  
• Barry Zito is the second-worst pitcher in MLB at getting batters to hit into double plays: just once in 39 opportunities.
   
  
• Eric Chavez is in seventh place overall amongst the players in the Hacking Mass contest, where you try to build the worst possible team that gets the most playing time.
   
  
• In fact, if you used the projected A's starting lineup to build your Hacking Mass team at the beginning of the year (using Zito and Dotel as your pitchers), you wouldn't have a single player with a negative score. Your Hacking Mass team would be in 173rd place out of 1859, better (or is it worse?) than every single member of the Baseball Prospectus staff.