San Jose’s campaign for the A’s continues with 75 Silicon Valley CEOs writing to Bud Selig to encourage him and the owners to approve a move (PDF). The lobbying campaign has to be putting Giants’ managing partner Bill Neukom in an uncomfortable position, but hey, as Microsoft’s longtime chief legal counsel he’s got experience trying to sit on the valley.

Baseball San Jose

On the stadium front, what do you think of those drawings of the new Cisco Field posted at Baseball San Jose? The short right field with the colonnade, sort of an opposite-field Green Monster, cries out for left-handed power. After this season, any kind of power will do.

A little torn about the A’s remaining on the fringes of AL West race. Of course, it would be great to get back in it, but it would also be beneficial to give the young pitchers extra days off they way they did last September. Gio Gonzalez has already thrown 20 innings more than he did in 2009, and the Verducci effect says that pitchers under 25 are in danger of injury if their total rises by more than 30. Baseball Prospectus gives the A’s only a 2 percent chance of reaching the playoffs.

This is a a couple weeks old, but one of the best discussion threads I’ve seen all season is on FanGraphs about Trevor Cahill. The debate is on whether his great results in getting batters out without a ton of strikeouts are due to luck, skill in throwing sinkers or the A’s outstanding defense. Maybe some of each?