A's offer Rule 5 pick back to slengA
by adragon on Mar 15, 2010 12:28 PM PDT
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Cassevah, a right-hander selected by Oakland in the Rule 5 Draft in December, pitched in just a pair of spring games for a total of two innings. He allowed two hits and one run for a 4.50 ERA as a member of the A's. The Angels took Cassevah back for $25,000, half of the A's original fee for selecting the righty
So long Bobby we hardly knew you. I know of one guy in the A's family that will miss him. I thought he was a long shot to make the team but I never want to give anything of value to the slengA.
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The "thing of value" isn't Cassevah, it's the $25,000 which was pointlessly squandered on the Rule 5 pick
The team’s Rule 5 strategy (loosely defined, natch) continues to get stranger and stranger.
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
"$25,000 which was pointessly squandered on the rule 5 pick"
Oh come on. If the A’s had a COO, he/she would have that in his back pocket.
They spend $25,000 for the post game spread!
Yeah, it's kinda small peanuts
But it’s just so bafflingly nonsensical. They don’t ever do anything creative with the Rule 5, yet they keep making the picks.
we in the losin baseball binness. and cousin, binness is a boomin.
by walk off bunt on Mar 15, 2010 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
This WAS creative. Cassevah wasn't exactly a no-brainer pick
He was also not a good pick.
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by thejd44 on Mar 16, 2010 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Picking a terrible relief pitcher isn't creative
Creative would have been effectively deciding to go with a 24-man team while burning a roster spot on some 20-year-old Latin American kid, or something.
The Cassevah pick was just dense.
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
Why do we call the Angels
Slegna? I realize that it is spelled backwards and all, but i must have missed why we decided to do that. ANyone??
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What would a sports blog be without demeaning, too-clever-by-half references to rival teams?
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
I'm guessing that and because it, um, sounds a lot like "smegma"
Which you can look up the definition of if you really want to.
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"slegna"
one of many forms of bodily produced funk that Angel fans flick on the ground at Angel Stadium during home games. Of course, these reoccurring deposits of smegma tend to attract and sustain colonies of FREAKING GIANT RADIOACTIVE RATS!
"Cheese is the fruit juice nature intended."- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Mar 15, 2010 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
and yes, Virginia, Slegna is Angel smegma.
"Cheese is the fruit juice nature intended."- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Mar 15, 2010 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Please reference my sig line.
A Ballade [for the Angels Fan], by Eustache Deschamps: "We are cowardly, ill-formed and weak / Aged, envious and evil-spoken. / I see only fools and sots / Truly the end is nigh / All goes ill."
Random etymology note
According to Merriam Webster, the word “smegma” comes from Greek, and in new Latin it means “detergent”. (I imagine it deters the ladies as well.)
To me, “slegna” doesn’t sound like it at all. The spelling looks Italian so I pronounce it Italianly, so it sounds sort of “zlayn-ya”. To me it is more reminiscent of lasagna than smegma.
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I never want to read that last sentence ever again.
Puke.
Taken down with hearts alive, our hearts alive.
Of course if you ricottoff the tip...
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You got that right PT...
A’s strange Rule V history:
A’s RULE V picks since 1998: Bobby Cassevah (2009), Ben Copeland (2008), Fernando Hernandez (2007), Ryan Goleski (2006), Jay Marshall (2006), Tyler Johnson (2004), Frank Brooks (2003 – via trade), Rontrez Johnson (2002), Mike Neu (2002), Jason Grabowski (2001), Bo Porter (1999), and last but not least, Eric Stuckenschneider (1998).
"just a beating heart ... plasma that we'll put into our uniform." - Billy Beane
by athleticsBB4life on Mar 15, 2010 1:29 PM PDT reply actions
to be fair
I was hoping for Skelton last year, but he hasn’t done very much either. Unless you’re extremely lucky, a rule V guy won’t usually amount to much.
"It took eight hours, seven and a half to find the heart"- Earl McCatty
by DyeLongJustice on Mar 16, 2010 6:57 PM PDT up reply actions
While those picks weren't good, some of them made sense
Hernandez and Marshall made sense. Goleski had crazy minor league power. I understand those picks. I don’t think anybody understood the Cassevah pick.
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by thejd44 on Mar 16, 2010 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I still think Hernandez could eventually be a pretty solid pitcher
Luckily, the A’s have him back again! (And with no strings attached this time.)
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
The problem with the Goleski pick was that he was injured
Oh, and also Joakim Soria and Josh Hamilton.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
I wouldn't have taken Josh Hamilton in a million years
Sorry, but I’m generally not betting on the drug addict to actually be over his problems.
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by thejd44 on Mar 19, 2010 12:08 AM PDT up reply actions
But that's the point of the rule 5
You take the guy who’s real unlikely to make it as long as he has ridiculous upside. The A’s don’t seem to understand that.
"Loyal? I'm the most loyal player money can buy." - Don Sutton
Oh. I thought you took a guy
who could mayyyyyyyybe be ok unless he continued to just be not good at all.
I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal
I'd agree with that mentality
Especially since the guy would need to stay on the 25-man roster to keep.
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The return of Cassevah himself is of little importance, at least to me...
but doesn’t this organizational changing of hands now leave the A’s 40-man roster less one body and thus at 39? Maybe the whole point of this “have him back” was meant to open up a spot on the roster for…Jason Jennings maybe? Seems like the team might like him as a long-reliever out of the pen, which, despite his Spring performance thus far, is somewhat of a mystery to me, considering his track record.
I'm never gonna do it without the fez on!
it's practically at 38...
Outman will go to the 60-day DL in the coming weeks.
"just a beating heart ... plasma that we'll put into our uniform." - Billy Beane
by athleticsBB4life on Mar 15, 2010 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Noted.
Is there another non-roster pitcher the team might be tempted to add in the coming weeks, then? Maybe Fernando Hernandez? A position player? D-Mac, even though he was sent back to minor league camp already?
I'm never gonna do it without the fez on!
Maybe someone close to the majors
like Cardenas?
we in the losin baseball binness. and cousin, binness is a boomin.
by walk off bunt on Mar 15, 2010 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I tend to like using guys like Jennings as long relievers
They’re going to give you similar performance to a younger player, they don’t cost much more, and there’s no risk of hurting a player’s development with spotty outings. Essentially, you can abuse Jason Jennings with absolutely no negative consequences for the team going forward. In the meantime, a potentially valuable player is in the minors getting normal, regular work.
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by thejd44 on Mar 16, 2010 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
virus
Maybe the point was to secretly infect him with a virus and then send him back to the collective.
by Larry E on Mar 16, 2010 5:00 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
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