Hopefully the time for a move is near

http://blog.sfgate.com/athletics/2012/04/30/milone-gets-thumping-at-fenway-park-as-bats-come-alive-late/

...Then the A’s slapped five runs on the board in the seventh, with three coming on a homer by Reddick, making it 11-6 – and Oakland left the bases loaded that inning when Daric Barton struck out looking against Vicente Padilla.

That was not an at-bat that will keep Barton in the lineup. Melvin praised some of Barton’s early-season at-bats when he first came off the DL and he was swinging more aggressively, but this seemed like Barton reverting to the passive wait-for-a-perfect-pitch-or-walk mode. With two outs and men in scoring position, and the team in the midst of a rally, someone who wants playing spot – even a roster spot – needs to swing at pitches near the zone. Especially with two strikes.

Melvin is not one to rip his players, and when I asked specifically about Barton’s at-bat, he said, “He’s looking for a good ball to hit there. … He has a certain style of hitting. I’d probably have to look at the pitch.”

I’m guessing Melvin might not like the looks of things on video when he checks. Barton also didn’t help himself much on defense, either; after missing two bounced throws that he said he felt he should have gotten the day before, Barton let another high-bounce throw past him again Monday, when Jemile Weeks rushed a throw in the Red Sox’s four-run second inning.

I’m not sure it would have been possible for Barton to get all three of those throws, the two on Sunday and the one Monday, but two out of three, again, would go some way toward justifying playing time. As it is, I have a feeling we shall see more of Kila Ka’aihue, and I wonder how long the A’s might go carrying two left-handed hitting first basemen.
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