A's are sellers: Nats acquire Doolittle and Madson

[fan_since79]

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20080822/sean-doolittle-ryan-madson-traded-washington-nationals-oakland-athletics

LOL when I read this:

A 36-year-old right-hander, Madson has a 2.06 ERA in 39⅓ innings and is seventh among relievers in WHIP at 0.79. He has not allowed any of the seven inherited runners to score in his past 13 appearances and has held opponents to a .188 batting average. Madson had 30 saves for Oakland last season.

Edited July 16, 2017 by fan_since79

[Homebrewer]

51 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20080822/sean-doolittle-ryan-madson-traded-washington-nationals-oakland-athletics

LOL when I read this:

A 36-year-old right-hander, Madson has a 2.06 ERA in 39⅓ innings and is seventh among relievers in WHIP at 0.79. He has not allowed any of the seven inherited runners to score in his past 13 appearances and has held opponents to a .188 batting average. Madson had 30 saves for Oakland last season.

Street will take his place in Oak next season with similar numbers.

[ten ocho recon scout]

From wikipedia

Not sure where to make the joke. That taking health advice from our pitchers os a bad idea, or that ours are all TJ vets, so they would know what advice to give?

[fan_since79]

Madson was able to recover and have success elsewhere, by avoiding the fantastic bullpen session that did in Burnett.

 

[beatlesrule]

The Angels should have been all over the Nats farm.  We have some good bullpen pieces we could have traded away.  I am not very familiar with their system or the players they got in return but Eppler should have been on the phones and gotten the Nats to overpay.  They are desperate.

[fan_since79]

Nationals had MLB's worst bullpen. Their relievers had a 5.34 ERA and a bunch of blown saves.

They just got significantly better, but may not be done dealing.

Bedrosian for somebody??

Edited July 16, 2017 by fan_since79

[Second Base]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

Nationals had MLB's worst bullpen. Their relievers had a 5.34 ERA and a bunch of blown saves.

They just got significantly better, but may not be done dealing.

Bedrosian for somebody??

They just promoted Austin Adams, the one we traded to them in the Danny Espinosa trade, not the one we have in AAA. He had a killer showing in AAA this year and should help them out. He won't fix all their problems byt he definitely is a good bet to be part of the solution.

[m0nkey]

 

Anyone think bedrosian and Escobar could fetch back rendon?................

[totdprods]

My Bedrosian trade dream is Tapia and McMahon from the Rocks.

[Jason]

A's are sellers. So just the normal season for them?

[Stradling]

1 hour ago, m0nkey said:

 

Anyone think bedrosian and Escobar could fetch back rendon?................

At least one guy thinks that.  Oh and Chuck, so two guys. 

[Blarg]

What, the A's didn't get Rendon back in the trade? I'm shocked.

[Stradling]

32 minutes ago, Blarg said:

What, the A's didn't get Rendon back in the trade? I'm shocked.

They must not have asked for him. 

[arch stanton]

They couldn't get Rendon. The Nats already traded all their spare infielders to the Angels

[floplag]

When in the Beane era have they NOT been sellers?  

[Stradling]

Wash, Rinse, Repeat

[well_red]

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20082470/billy-beane-oakland-athletics-rebuilding-new-stadium-mind

On a similar note, thought this was quite amusing.  They haven't even picked out a location for a new stadium, let alone started the approval process or building it.  They have to be at a minimum 5+ years out from actually playing in a new stadium... not to mention the Warriors or Raiders.  Could be pretty grim couple years up in that toilet bowl.

[Angel Oracle]

Not enough Rondons to offer for a Rendon? 

[disarcina]

Just watch -- Ryan Madsen will get the SAVE for all three games of the upcoming series that starts Tuesday.

If Madsen makes one pitch in a game during this series he will have pitched more for a team (Washington Nats) , a team he would have been on for less than a week, actually about three days -- than during his entire multi-year, multi-million dollar contact with the Halos.

I'm thinking -- did Madsen even do a bull pen session for us before he went down with an injury.

GEEZ.

[disarcina]

well, the stadium situation in Oakland is terrible, no doubt, has been and will be going forward.  I blame Bud Selig who refused to make a decision for years re the Oakland franchise and then the new guy has sat on his hands as well (well he did refuse their ability to move to San Jose or apparently Las Vegas as well).

The Commissioner's office should allow the Oakland franchise to re-locate to Las Vegas for the 2019 season and tell Vegas to get it's baseball only, with a retractable roof, built by then............wanna bet Vegas would meet that deadline?

Soon, the Oakland A's will be the only tenants the Oakland Coliseum has.

It's easy to rag on Oakland A's franchise -- but it's pretty impressive how they've remained somewhat competitive over the years, developed some young talent through their farm system (players they develop and can never keep) with all the stuff they have to contend with re - the City of Oakland, the Commissioner's office, the ownership's understandable unwillingness to invest much etc. -- and even this year, for all the nonsense the front office of the A's has to put up with -- they're only 3 to 4 games behind every other AL West team bunched up behind the run-away division leader Houston.......... so for all the problems the A's have, the M's, Rangers and the Angels (with the best player in the game) are about three or four games better than the A's right now in 2017. GEEZ,

Meanwhile, how about a shout out to some of the A's season ticket holders -- a small but mightily loyal and hearty group of some very knowledgeable baseball fans. It's gotta be tough to stick with that franchise..........hats off to them,

 

[Lou]

18 hours ago, m0nkey said:

Anyone think bedrosian and Escobar could fetch back rendon?................

This just illustrates how ridiculous it is to even think Washington would consider that deal.

[Lou]

14 minutes ago, disarcina said:

It's easy to rag on Oakland A's franchise -- but it's pretty impressive how they've remained somewhat competitive over the years,

But they really haven't been. In the last decade they won the division twice (no playoff series wins). The other 8 seasons the finished 18 games or more out of 1st place in 6 times. The other 2 years they finished 9 and 10 games back. 

Right now they are 20 games behind Houston. 

[Inside Pitch]

19 hours ago, Scotty@AW said:

They just promoted Austin Adams, the one we traded to them in the Danny Espinosa trade, not the one we have in AAA. He had a killer showing in AAA this year and should help them out. He won't fix all their problems byt he definitely is a good bet to be part of the solution.

Killer showing?  The guy put up 1.6 WHIP.  He was walking 7.3 batters per 9...   Not surprisingly he's got an ERA of infinity.   How he managed an ERA of 2.50 while allowing almost two baserunners per inning is miraculous.

[disarcina]

LOU -- well the A's are somewhat competitive -- they seem to beat AL West teams and not finish last.

heck, with the franchise situation there I am amazed they can field an MLB caliber team most nights (and some would argue, they don't now).

I'm amazed with how Billy Beane makes lemonade out of lemons most years up there -- of course, the problem with that kind of roster is they're all traded off at deadline and the team really fades in August/ September when they play mainly within the division which means when the team tanks, the descent in the standings is rapid........

[Blarg]

The A's finished last in their division the two previous seasons and currently last this season.