MLB '12

[Alex]

With baseball starting today (even I'm ignoring the A's games in Japan) I refreshed a spreadsheet I've been keeping for the last couple of years.

On June 10, 2010 I went to an A's game and that day I saw 14 players actually play them.

The spreadsheet tracks the fates of each of those players day-by-day since. What team they were on, whether there was a game that day, if there was did they play, if they played did they start or sub, what position.

Less than 2 years later only 5 of those 14 players are still with the team Only 11 of them are playing major league ball on opening day. Such is fandom for a small market team (though I really have no sense of whether it would be much different for other teams)

Here is the colorful representation of that fate when I zoom Excel out to the last setting.

Color represents the team they were on. White means they're not in the majors but are still trying to be (minor leagues/free agents), black is done.