Oakland may have been a little bit lucky in how it converted its offensive production into runs – to the tune of a 17 run benefit (713 – 696, see above) but they should still be able to overcome that hurdle and score more runs in 2013. That’s because, with the exception of 33 year-old Coco Crisp, every starter and virtually every offensive contributor will be on right side of 30. (Seth Smith is 30.) No one had a truly outlier season last year, so there is no reason the team that scored 407 runs in the second half of the year should regress meaningfully. (The A’s were the only team in baseball to score more runs in each successive quarter last year.)