Temporary Solution

After tonight's miserable loss, I decided to do some looking at teams from the past three years and compare them to the A's current situation. The 2004 Mariners and Blue Jays were in the bottom 5 of losing teams and yet if you look at their team batting summaries, they weren't all that bad. What got them was a combination of the pitching being awful and a few guys who got 200 too many ab's i.e. Scott Spiezio.

So what does this have to do with the 2005 A's? Well, the A's have only 3 guys who can be counted on as of this moment: Hatteberg, Kotsay, and Scutaro. Seeing as how they are the best hitters on the team, I recommend constructing this lineup:

Kotsay
Scutaro
Hatteberg
Kendall
...

And the rest to follow in any order you see fit. The reason I chose to stop at that is simply because the rest are too streaky to consistently produce. In the beginning of a game, the 1-3 of the lineup above give the greatest possibility of scoring runs for that inning with Kendall currently excelling solely with runners in scoring position. The A's need to string some wins together in order to make sure the pitching doesn't put extra pressure on itself to pitch perfect games in order to help the club win. With a run or two to start every home game, the A's know that they have the ability to win the game in their final ab should a tie be reached into the bottom of the ninth, and to a lesser degree, the eighth.