A's Sign Chacon

by FrankCohen on Jun 17, 2009 10:52 PM PDT

According to MLBTradeRumors.com, the Athletics have signed Shawn Chacon. Yes, the same Shawn Chacon that beat up his former GM, Ed Wade. Chacon last pitched in the Independent League, with the Newark Bears, where he put up decent numbers. I don't really see much upside in this move, just thought it is somewhat interesting and quite out of the blue. Do you think he will get a shot with the big league club? Or will he be used as a mere minor league roster filler, with only a chance to see the Majors once again if an injury or two or three occurs?

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Don't really care about this signing.

minor league filler, really.

Zeigler to Geren…."A-Rod? He’s my bitch." -alox

by mrod on Jun 17, 2009 11:05 PM PDT reply actions

his stats in the indy league are thoroughly unimpressive.

by stm72 on Jun 18, 2009 8:08 AM PDT up reply actions

need a bat more than anything

What did i tell you...didn't I say they would win? Yeah that's right I did didn't ? Wait.. what? They LOST?!?!?

by greenbean on Jun 17, 2009 11:56 PM PDT reply actions

i was thinking Chacin at first

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by Cheezombie on Jun 18, 2009 2:17 AM PDT reply actions

I'd take that

by Future Ed on Jun 18, 2009 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions

Folks wanted Geren fired...

Sounds like Beane decided to hire a hitman instead!

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Jun 18, 2009 5:27 AM PDT reply actions

Thats freakin funny.

It would be cheaper than firing him. Geren is a log.

Stomp,em, stomp the piss out of em.Then pound the budweiser after the game. Joe Schultz Seattle Piolts Mgr 1969

by billyball1981 on Jun 18, 2009 6:43 AM PDT up reply actions

Well...

Beane doesn’t have the heart to fire his friend, so he signs Chacon and lets Nature take its course.

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Jun 18, 2009 7:19 AM PDT up reply actions

Hey Shawn Chacon, tell me about the rabbits again!

"If you don’t start concentrating and catching the ball, you’re going to have to deal with my black ass!"- Wash

by Gaijin_Suketto on Jun 18, 2009 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions

As funny as Ed Whitson, billyball1981?

by LowcountryJoe on Jun 18, 2009 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions

be still, my heart

by OaklandSi on Jun 18, 2009 5:35 AM PDT reply actions

This is when we turn around the season

I am Ray Fosse's infatuations with Clay Wood and high-definition television.

by franks a lot on Jun 18, 2009 6:13 AM PDT reply actions

Who's next?

Rick Helling?

by Mark H on Jun 18, 2009 7:05 AM PDT reply actions

John Rocker?

Stomp,em, stomp the piss out of em.Then pound the budweiser after the game. Joe Schultz Seattle Piolts Mgr 1969

by billyball1981 on Jun 18, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions

Rickey!

by ryanmoser on Jun 18, 2009 7:52 AM PDT reply actions

why not hire ricky to

be a basecoach?

or a hitting coach?

he’ll definetly get the job done better then old Bobby boy

Fuck you Bob Geren

by supermarc589 on Jun 18, 2009 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions

anybody know what happened to bobby madrich? he was a flash in the pan for the mariners

by stm72 on Jun 18, 2009 8:07 AM PDT reply actions

Bobby Madritsch!

I’d say he was a little more than a flash in the pan. The M’s brought him up for their rotation in the middle of 2004 and he was a surprise success. For the second half of the season he was the M’s ace, one of the few highlights of an otherwise crappy season. Very interesting character with a great story. He had spent several years in the minors and independent league, so he was already in his late 20s when he finally debuted in the majors.

He was in the starting rotation in 2005, but he hurt his shoulder in his first game. Though it wasn’t immediately apparent, the injury was persistent and he ended up spending the whole season on the DL in a series of failed rehabs. Finally he got surgery in the offseason.

He never came back from that. The Mariners let him go. The Royals signed him to a minor-league contract, but then cut him soon after. Last year he was back in Independent League, which I assume is where he is now.

Who knows, maybe he could have another comeback. I think he’s 33 now.

"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan

by iglew on Jun 18, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions

Do. Not. Want.

Unless he runs Geren out of town.

"You end up with a name like ‘Outman,’" he said last week. "What else are you going to do? You’re going to get people out, man." ~ Dallas Braden

by Blicks on Jun 18, 2009 8:59 AM PDT reply actions

What the heck is Beane thinking?

There has been alot of discussion here at AN recently about the need to advance and challenge some of our top prospects at Midland and lower. That will require the opening of some slots at Sacramento. Why in the world would BB sign yet another AAAA filler to further clog up the minor league development pipeline?

Are there many more injuries we don’t know about and BB feels the need to hire any warm bodies he can find? Weird, very weird. I’ll be watching closely to see what this seemingly useless acquisition adds to our system.

by redtopcowboy on Jun 18, 2009 9:09 AM PDT reply actions

None of those top prospects are starting pitchers though.

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by designatedforassignment on Jun 18, 2009 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions

Bullpen

Bob Geren’s mishandling of the bullpen (the most on the money criticism I have seen of him this year) is probably the genesis of this move. Chacon is not going to crack the rotation and may not even crack the big league roster, but he is there as an insurance policy in case Weurtz/Springer/Whoever loses their arm in a tragic pitching accident.

by jeffro on Jun 18, 2009 9:29 AM PDT reply actions

exactly

I see Chacon as a long-relief replacement just in case we pull another “Dan Giese” on one of our relief pitchers (I’m looking at you, E-gon). Unless another player goes to the 60 day DL, I just don’t see it worth being the risk of running a player through waivers to put Chacon on the 40-man roster. If they were planning to do anything other than hold him as insurance, they probably would have already found a 40-man spot for him, albeit in the minors.

Also, I don’t get the focused outrage on Chacon. There are other players in MLB that drive drunk, beat their spouses, take drugs, don’t pay taxes, etc. Now, I certainly think what Chacon did was morally repugnant, but why is what he did beyond the pale while we let equally eggregious things slide for other players? Is it because Chacon is a fringe player and some of these other guys (Myers, Delmon Young, Dukes, etc.) aren’t?

by cityplANner on Jun 18, 2009 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs