Miguel Andujar went 0-for-3 and struck out twice Wednesday in the loss to the A’s.
A rare multi-strikeout game for Andujar, who is still batting .289 for the year. He hit .285 last season. Still, those averages come with little power, few walks and no real defensive value. He’s hitting in the middle of the order, yet he’s driven in 33 runs in 357 plate appearances since the beginning of last season. It’s kind of hard to believe that the A’s are treating him as a regular, and still harder to believe that they opted to keep Seth Brown around if they didn’t see him as a better option than Andujar against right-handers. Given that the team had money to spend, it would have been so easy to do better in this spot. Nick Kurtz might fill the void before long, though that would require playing Brent Rooker in the outfield pretty regularly.