now ill admit my two fav teams are the astros and A's but this offseason he lost giambi,izzy and damon and has made smart replacement moves like today he got CARLOS PENA from texas, this kid is according to many the best 1b prospect in the game, granted ramos is excellent but he filled a big need for oakland and they have plenty of young pitching texas did well too, getting jason hart,ramos and ryan ludwick for pena and venafro, but i just wanted to say i marvel at billy beanes success, he got koch in a steal and now this