30 MLB Teams in 30 Posts - 2022 Edition: #13

Welcome back to the next post in my 30 MLB Teams in 30 Posts countdown (plus the contest - see the bottom of the post for details on that).

#13:  Oakland Athletics (Previous Rankings - 2019, 2020: #14, 11)

This card looks much better in person than it does in the scan!

The Oakland Athletics have bounced around a bit in my rankings but always landing somewhere in the 11-14 range.  As with many west coast teams (especially AL teams), I don't have much against the Athletics.  In fact, in some weird way I kind of like the A's mostly because the Reds beat Oakland in their one World Series appearance in my lifetime.  Those mighty, vaunted A's fell to the scrappy Reds and with that, my heart went to Cincy.  Too bad the Reds haven't come close to greatness since...and lately they don't even try (I'm guessing most Oakland fans would say the same thing about their club so in that sense we are in the same boat)!

I've also always liked the Athletics colors, especially on baseball cards.  For some reason, the green and yellow color scheme often makes for a striking baseball card (and a refreshing change of pace in those team-specific color coordinated sets where almost every other team is either blue or red).  I wonder why green and yellow are shared by more professional teams?  You've got the Athletics, the Packers, and my favorite college basketball team, the Vermont Catamounts!  Go green and yellow!

My 2022 MLB Rankings (so far):

#30:  St. Louis Cardinals

#29:  New York Yankees

#28:  Boston Red Sox

#27:  Washington Nationals

#26:  San Francisco Giants

#25:  Chicago Cubs

#24:  Milwaukee Brewers

#23:  Miami Marlins

#22:  Atlanta Braves

#21:  Texas Rangers

#20:  Arizona Diamondbacks

#19:  Philadelphia Phillies

#18:  New York Mets

#17:  Baltimore Orioles

#16:  Los Angeles Dodgers

#15:  Los Angeles Angels

#14:  San Diego Padres

#13:  Oakland Athletics

#12:  ??

Contest entries to date (see here for details):

Fuji 26

Brett Alan 24

Crocodile 23

John Sharp 21

bbcardz 20

Matt 18

hiflew 18

The Lost Collector 16

Night Owl 9

Mike Matson 7

Jafronius 4

Wilson 3

Nick Vossbrink 3

Adam Kaningher 2

Alan Deakins 2

madding 1

Wrigley Wax 1

Next time, we are getting ever nearer the Top 10 teams in MLB this year.  Yet another West division team shows up in spot #12...so close to that Top 10 but not quite there.