Oakland A's 2013 Ongoing Thread

[HammerDown]

 

[navamind]

Callaspo traded to Oakland for Grant Green. Too bad dumppy doesn't post here.

 

[Puckleberry_finn]

These boards will be much better then the lousy ESPN boards. A's looking slow tonight. Hope Straily can get his shit together.

 

[SoPortland]

Rosales doing bis best to sabotage.

 

[ratenstein]

I just heard about the trade with the Angels.

 

[RaiderZar]

Rosales doing bis best to sabotage.

With a little help from Beane...

Callaspo? Is that the best he could do? Why not Kendrick, Utley or Young?

 

[Isaiah4110]

Well I guess Green is gone for good. If ESPN hadn't cut their boards then I'm sure that 2 years from now we would be hearing incessantly about how this was a terrible trade because Green finally started hitting .270 as a backup for some other team...

On a more serious note, I find this trade pretty intriguing. Beane said in an interview that we were extremely shallow on the left side of the infield, that we would have been in major trouble if someone like Donaldson or Lowrie went down with injury, and that was the main motivation for the deal. Callaspo essentially replaces Rosales. The only difference between the two is that Rosales was a fair defensive SS while Callaspo can't really play SS. At the plate they are very similar. Rosales has a .247/.333/.390 slash line against lefties this year while Callaspo has a .259/.333/.400 slash against lefties.Callaspo has definitely performed better against righties this season (.646 OPS vs. Rosales .402 OPS against righties), so Callaspo is a bit better in a pinch against a RHP.

As an added bonus, Callaspo strikes out less and walks more (22 SO and 34 BB for Callaspo vs. 31 SO and only 10 BB for Rosales.


The Phillies have made it abundantly clear that they are not trading Utley under any circumstances. Michael Young doesn't have a great bat anymore and doesn't have the range to play second. I highly doubt the Angels would have given up Howie Kendrick for Grant Green (Kendrick also costs well over twice as much as Callaspo).

 

[RaiderZar]

Well I guess Green is gone for good. If ESPN hadn't cut their boards then I'm sure that 2 years from now we would be hearing incessantly about how this was a terrible trade because Green finally started hitting .270 as a backup for some other team...

On a more serious note, I find this trade pretty intriguing. Beane said in an interview that we were extremely shallow on the left side of the infield, that we would have been in major trouble if someone like Donaldson or Lowrie went down with injury, and that was the main motivation for the deal. Callaspo essentially replaces Rosales. The only difference between the two is that Rosales was a fair defensive SS while Callaspo can't really play SS. At the plate they are very similar. Rosales has a .247/.333/.390 slash line against lefties this year while Callaspo has a .259/.333/.400 slash against lefties.Callaspo has definitely performed better against righties this season (.646 OPS vs. Rosales .402 OPS against righties), so Callaspo is a bit better in a pinch against a RHP.

As an added bonus, Callaspo strikes out less and walks more (22 SO and 34 BB for Callaspo vs. 31 SO and only 10 BB for Rosales.


The Phillies have made it abundantly clear that they are not trading Utley under any circumstances. Michael Young doesn't have a great bat anymore and doesn't have the range to play second. I highly doubt the Angels would have given up Howie Kendrick for Grant Green (Kendrick also costs well over twice as much as Callaspo).

Lowrie can't really play SS either. His weak arm is best suited for 2nd. I wonder what the price for Rollins might have been. Green showed nothing in his limited time & glad that this could spell the end of Rosales. Just not sure this trade does anything for 2013. We may win the division or a WC spot, but no real impact player for the playoffs. If Cespy & Reddick can get their numbers up going forward, that's almost the same as obtaining new players, without giving up anything. Questions will be Colon (suspension) & Anderson (injury machine).

 

[Isaiah4110]

The biggest two benefits of this are 1) an increase in organizational infield depth (Rosales becomes minor league depth and gets called back up if Lowrie or Donaldson goes down with injury) and 2) Callaspo isn't completely helpless against RHP (compare their OPS splits vs. RHP listed above).

Colon already served his time and is not going to get suspended by MLB. The information about him in the Biogenesis documents either did not relate to PEDs (like Gio Gonzalez) or reflected the purchases he made prior to his positive test (for which he was already suspended) last year.

Anderson getting health and returning to form will probably not be necessary to get us into the playoffs, but would be a HUGE boost once we are there. Cespedes and Reddick finding their swings again is also not likely necessary for us to win the division, but (like you pointed out RaiderZar) would also be a HUGE boost once we are in the playoffs.

 

[BigDDude]

Hope he never moved,........, or even unpacked.


Adam Rosales' stay in Texas was brief, to say the least. The Athletics [ame="[MEDIA=twitter]365539162595659776[/MEDIA]"]announced on Twitter[/ame] that they have re-claimed the infielder off waivers from the Rangers after he was designated for assignment last week. Oakland will make a corresponding 25-man roster move tomorrow.
The Rangers claimed Rosales off waivers from the A's on Aug. 2, and he was only property of Texas for three days before being designated for assignment once again. Rosales, 30, is hitting .193/.268/.319 on the season. He didn't receive an at-bat during his three-game tenure with the Rangers. The A's could potentially need the extra infield depth, as new acquisition Alberto Callaspo suffered what was thought to be a minor injury in a home-plate collision yesterday.

 

[RaiderZar]

Hope he never moved,........, or even unpacked.


Adam Rosales' stay in Texas was brief, to say the least. The Athletics announced on Twitter that they have re-claimed the infielder off waivers from the Rangers after he was designated for assignment last week. Oakland will make a corresponding 25-man roster move tomorrow.
The Rangers claimed Rosales off waivers from the A's on Aug. 2, and he was only property of Texas for three days before being designated for assignment once again. Rosales, 30, is hitting .193/.268/.319 on the season. He didn't receive an at-bat during his three-game tenure with the Rangers. The A's could potentially need the extra infield depth, as new acquisition Alberto Callaspo suffered what was thought to be a minor injury in a home-plate collision yesterday.

I'm sure they couldn't have used Rios.... now TEX has 3 legit SS. Beane is a fool sometimes or Wolff is a Jew.

 

[pegasusredleg]

Is Crisp DTD right now? Saw that he was out of the line up yesterday.

 

[DonyellFreak]

 

[Isaiah4110]

Would you look at that! All of a sudden Daric Barton is posting respectable numbers... We'll see if he can sustain them the rest of the season. If he keeps this up then he will at the very least earn himself a shot at a spot on an MLB Roster next season, whether with the A's or another team.

 

[BeaverShaver]

Lets go Oakland!!! Beat Detroit!!!

 

[DonyellFreak]

Victor Martinez and Grant Balfour should have kissed like this.

 

[ratenstein]

Barton is like Dracula.

 

[fordman84]

Too lazy to google, where is Gentry? Is he hurt, or just waiting to play Texas before he starts kicking ass?

 

[WhiteMamba]

Too lazy to google, where is Gentry? Is he hurt, or just waiting to play Texas before he starts kicking ass?

He will be back off of the DL before the end of this weekend.

 

[ratenstein]

Another good outing for Kazmir in the A's win... meanwhile,

Bartolo got lit up by the Los Angels of Los Anaheim.