Cargon sent back to AAA; Swooney Activated

by Taj Adib on Aug 28, 2008 6:12 PM PDT Comment 16 comments

Struggling Carlos Gonzalez has been optioned to AAA Sacramento while Ryan Sweeney has been activated from the disabled list to take his spot on the 25-man roster.

This isn't huge news as Cargon's been really struggling lately and even he indicated that he was kind of lost at the plate recently. He will likely only be down in the minors for a week or so, so not huge news but noteworthy nonetheless.

Honestly, he probably should have spent most of this season in AAA working on his plate discipline anyways, so to me this move was a "back to the future" type thing. Hopefully, he figure something out with his swing in a less-pressure-filled environment.

Looks like we'll be seeing a lot more of Rajai Davis over the next few days, which doesn't seem like such a bad thing with the way he has been swinging the bat and stealing bases...

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he really should have been at AAA all season

but I don’t think the experience will hurt him, just motivate him to work hard.

I have tickets for tomorrow’s and Saturday’s games

Here’s tonight’s lineup for those of us who can’t wait for the game thread:

Minnesota
Span, RF .309
Casilla, 2B .300
Mauer, C .317
Morneau, 1B .308
Ruiz, DH .340
Young, LF .282
Harris, 3B .262
Punto, SS .292
Gomez, CF .255

Oakland
Davis, CF .250
Crosby, SS .247
Cust, LF .228
Thomas, DH .235
Sweeney, R, RF .287
Barton, 1B .216
Hannahan, 3B .223
Bowen, C .179
Patterson, 2B .221

by OaklandSi on Aug 28, 2008 6:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

boy that is an ugly group of batting averages.

but one day, it will be a beautiful beautiful swan in front of a beautiful beautiful sunset at a beautiful beautiful park in Fremont also im drunk

by oakinboston on Aug 28, 2008 7:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

that's right

you are drunk

by OaklandSi on Aug 28, 2008 7:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's why looking at batting average is a silly thing to do.

I’m not sure I’d take Gomez offensively over any of the A’s regulars in the lineup tonight, and he has a better average than everybody but Swooney.

by thejd44 on Aug 28, 2008 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

My guess is Gonzalez will be in Sacramento through their playoffs

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by Flashfire on Aug 28, 2008 6:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

That would be a nice confidence booster.

Maybe he could be that “hero” that leads them to PCL and AAA glory for the 2nd straight season. Then he could come back in mid-September with a lot of confidence, which he clearly doesn’t have much of right now…

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by Taj Adib on Aug 28, 2008 6:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

sounds like a plan

by OaklandSi on Aug 28, 2008 6:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I second OaklandSi

sounds like a productive scenario.

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by One won lost won on Aug 28, 2008 6:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

cargon should never have been called up, i was against it all along.

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by xbhaskarx on Aug 28, 2008 7:13 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

He was playing fairly well before the slump

Had some trouble against lefties he needs to work on and his K/BB ratio also suffered, but he played excellent defense and did some nice things at the plate.

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by Flashfire on Aug 28, 2008 7:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Unfortunately nobody was saying that when he was tearing it up for a few months.

by mattman on Aug 30, 2008 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

he hasn't posted an OBP over .318 since his 3rd game

I wouldn’t exactly call that tearing it up.

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by iamawesomer on Aug 31, 2008 1:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

At the rate he was getting extra base hits...

it was tearing it up, you have to remember how young this guy is and that he really shouldn’t have even been in the big leagues yet.

by mattman on Aug 31, 2008 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

There was a stretch where he was tearing it up

People get obsessed with OBP, which is how hitters like Garret Anderson and Howie Kendrick get underrated round these parts. When you’re hitting .270 with a truckload of doubles, plus four HRs, and you’re stinging the ball most every time up, you’re doing just fine.

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by Nico on Aug 31, 2008 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

+1

everyone knows cargon can hit, but he was in the minors to develop some plate discipline. he didn’t but was still was called up, and not surprisingly continued to have the same issues.

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by xbhaskarx on Aug 31, 2008 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs