text: Esteban Loaiza.  He should be good for a win.  Minnesota hasn't done too great this year.  Oakland has a pretty good offence, great defence and great pitching and bullpen.\n\nLoaiza is 10-8 vs Minnesota in his career.  He has allowed 54 earned runs has 94 punch outs, and a 3.71 ERA.\n\nHe last played against Minny in 2004 whily playing for the White Sox and fared decent against them with a 1-1 record and 4.09 ERA.\n\nHe didn't play them in 2005 due to being in the NL for the Washington Nationals.\n\nIn 2003, at Minny's field, the Metrodome, he was 1-0, allowing 3 runs on 9 hits and had an ERA under 4.\n\nHowever, All time at the Metrodome, Loaiza is 3-6 with a 5.12 ERA and only 42Ks in 11 games and 58 innings pitched.\n\nAgain, however, Loaiza usually pitches his best baseball in the month of April.  He's compiled a record of 18-6.\n\nHis home-away stats are not relevant to this situation as they are pretty similar.\n\nIt's a toss-up.  I really don't see a problem from having anyone start any games, because they're usually bound to get you a few K's and potentially a win.  All public leagues don't count losses against the scoring and only ERA is affected.  Being early in the season, most pitchers are giving up a lot of runs.\n\nGood luck.\nCraig