I want to kick off a new weekly feature here at Beaneball, one that I used to do back in the days of posting on what's since become scout.com: A's in the league leaders. It's nothing special, but it's fun, and it condenses something I think a lot of people do (trolling leaderboards for their favorite players) into one page. I like to do silly categories (batting average, at bats, runs) as well as serious ones (EqA, RC/27, OPS) because remember, this isn't supposed to actually mean anything.

I'll post it weekly here in the blog section, but I'll also update a separate page for the stats section so you can always find it in one place. Let's kick it off.

Rankings are AL-only.

Hitters - Good

• Hits - Mark Kotsay, T3, 15
• Home runs - Nick Swisher, T3, 3
• Walks - Eric Chavez, T8, 6
• Batting average - Mark Kotsay, 5, .366
• On-base percentage - Mark Kotsay, 8, .422
• Pitches per plate appearance - Eric Chavez, 4, 4.31
• Pitches per plate appearance - Jason Kendall, 6, 4.29
• Intentional walks - Mark Kotsay, 3, 2
• Intentional walks - Eric Chavez, T4, 1
• Runs Created per 27 outs - Mark Kotsay, 8, 8.75
• Isolated Power - Nick Swisher, 9, .286
• Walks per plate appearance - Eric Chavez, 10, .143
• Walks per strikeout - Mark Kotsay, 1, 4.00

Hitters - Bad

• Low batting average - Erubiel Durazo, 3, .171
• Low OBP - Erubiel Durazo, 3, .256
• Low OBP - Jason Kendall, 8, .267
• Low SLG - Eric Chavez, 9, .316
• Low OPS - Erubiel Durazo, 2, .428
• Low OPS - Jason Kendall, 7, .505
• Low RC/27 - Jason Kendall, 1, 2.15
• Low Isolated Power - Erubiel Durazo, T1, .000
• Low Isolated Power - Jason Kendall, T6, .024
• Low Secondary Average - Jason Kendall, 4, .095
• Low Secondary Average - Erubiel Durazo, 9, .114
• Low BB/K - Scott Hatteberg, T4, 0.20
• Caught stealing - Charles Thomas, T5, 1
• Strikeouts - Nick Swisher, T4, 11
• Ground into double plays - Bobby Kielty, T6, 2

Hitters - Descriptive

• Lowest Ground/Fly ratio - Nick Swisher, 3, 0.38
• Sacrifices - Eric Byrnes, Mark Ellis, Marco Scutaro, T4, 1

Pitchers - Good

• Starts - Barry Zito, T1, 3
• Innings - Barry Zito, 10, 17.3
• Wins - Kiko Calero, T2, 2
• ERA - Joe Blanton, 9, 2.45
• Hit batters - Barry Zito, Kirk Saarloos, T1, 3
• Quality starts - Dan Haren, T1, 2
• High Average game score - Rich Harden, 2, 68.5
• Low Ground/Fly ratio - Rich Harden, 2, 0.69
• Low Ground/Fly ratio - Joe Blanton, 7, 0.88
• Low Ground/Fly ratio - Barry Zito, 8, 0.88
• WHIP - Joe Blanton, 7, 0.91
• Low Component ERA - Rich Harden, 6, 1.60
• Low DIPS ERA - Rich Harden, 3, 2.22
• High K/9 - Rich Harden, 3, 8.78
• Low OBP allowed - Joe Blanton, 7, .238
• Low SLG allowed - Rich Harden, 5, .267
• Low OPS allowed - Rich Harden, 9, .532

Pitchers - Bad

• High OBP allowed - Barry Zito, 8, .342
• Low K/9 - Joe Blanton, 9, 3.27
• High DIPS ERA - Barry Zito, 4, 5.99
• High DIPS ERA - Joe Blanton, 5, 5.88
• High DIPS ERA - Dan Haren, 6, 5.44
• High Component ERA - Barry Zito, 10, 5.03
• Low run support - Barry Zito, 2, 1.04
• Low run support - Dan Haren, 9, 2.08
• Low Average game score - Barry Zito, 3, 40.0
• Most pitches per plate appearances - Joe Blanton, 9, 3.88
• Most pitches per inning - Barry Zito, 8, 16.9
• Pitches - Barry Zito, 6, 293
• Runs - Barry Zito, T1, 17
• Earned Runs - Barry Zito, 1, 14
• High ERA - Barry Zito, 2, 7.27
• Walks - Barry Zito, T3, 7
• Walks - Dan Haren, T9, 6
• Losses - Barry Zito, T1, 3
• Blown saves - Huston Street, T4, 1

Pitchers - Descriptive

• Tough losses - Barry Zito, 2, 3
• Low BABIP - Joe Blanton, T1, .147
• Low BABIP - Dan Haren, 5, .167
• Batters faced - Barry Zito, T8, 80
• Sacrifices allowed - Justin Duchscherer, T1, 2
• Sac flies allowed - Barry Zito, Juan Cruz, T1, 2