McCovens relax -- Hairston to A's for 2 minor leaguers

Scott Hairston has been traded to the A's for 2 minor leaguers, perhaps a precursor to a Holliday deal?

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NO MORE HAIRSTON!

Except during interleague, but still!

Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.

by cheno on Jul 5, 2009 6:49 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Over 2/3 less Hairston per season!

Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Bowkermania walks wild on you?

by rightcenterfielder on Jul 5, 2009 7:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

2 pitchers and a PTBNL

by wilriv21 on Jul 5, 2009 6:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Fox Sports says

The two pitchers are Ryan Webb and Craig Italiano.

Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Bowkermania walks wild on you?

by rightcenterfielder on Jul 5, 2009 6:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Italiano is the fakest sounding name I’ve ever heard.

Judgment Day is coming
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by Natto on Jul 5, 2009 7:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He was just tired of being mistaken for Craig Español or Craig Français.

Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Bowkermania walks wild on you?

by rightcenterfielder on Jul 5, 2009 7:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Craig Deutsch is on line one.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 5, 2009 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Billy Beane is so good, he’s convincing other teams to take made-up players

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by Useful_Idiot on Jul 5, 2009 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

by biff pocoroba on Jul 6, 2009 8:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Guy Incognito!

Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...

by rotorueter on Jul 6, 2009 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

His family owns several lucrative

Olive Garden franchises.

Ted Wood.

by dangjackson on Jul 6, 2009 9:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Italiano’s prolly going right to the Lake Elsinore bullpen. He’s been pretty bad all year and the LE rotation is awesome, the best in the league if you ask me.

Good news is he’s out of the SJ Giants’ hair. He’s owned the Giants this year.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 5, 2009 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I saw Italiano pitch early in the year against the Giants. He certainly didn’t look like to me like he was worth acquiring.

by FluLikeSymptoms on Jul 5, 2009 9:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He repeated advanced-A this year after splitting the year between low-A and advanced-A, and before that was stuck in low-A for two seasons. No thanks.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 5, 2009 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Agree, I think this is another deal where the PTBNL is key. Rumors say it “will be one of two pitchers in the A’s organization. One of these unnamed players reportedly has Major League service time.” Could be one of oaktown’s real prospects, as opposed to these two mediocre ones

by m34josh on Jul 5, 2009 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Eveland?

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 6, 2009 12:07 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

blevins
eveland
marshall
gallagher
gray
marshall
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Who knows what beane is crazy enough to do

*List stolen from mlbtraderumors

by m34josh on Jul 6, 2009 12:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I stand corrected. Italiano might end up in the LE rotation as they promoted their best pitcher Cory Luebke to AA.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 6, 2009 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Twitter?

He’s out of the NL West at least.

Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)

by CB30 on Jul 5, 2009 6:52 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

just in time

for the 4 game set with the pads.

by jctGamer on Jul 5, 2009 6:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He's out of my division

He’s out of my division
And I don’t know whether to laugh or cry
I don’t kno-

Wait, I’m laughing all the way.

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by Natto on Jul 5, 2009 7:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Can the Giants and A’s do business?

by wilriv21 on Jul 5, 2009 7:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Im sure they can. I dont know if they will.

Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)

by CB30 on Jul 5, 2009 7:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

BEGONE SATAN TO THE DEPTHS OF COCYTUS

by shanghaijim on Jul 5, 2009 7:19 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Why the fuck couldn't we do this?

The A’s didn’t give up anything at all.

Semi-proud adoptive father of Scott "Aaron" Barnes.

by boonitez on Jul 5, 2009 11:47 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I feel the same way.

Yes, This is still a 79 win squad.
Fuggen Rox! You might want to try beating The Bums more than once in 10 games. Try it. You might find you like it.

by daveinexile on Jul 6, 2009 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

From MLB.com:

Towers said the deal with the A’s came about in the past day, when A’s general manager Billy Beane contacted him in the eighth inning of Saturday’s game against the Dodgers. Towers had another deal in place, but after talking to Beane, he decided to jump on that deal instead.

I wonder what the deal in place was?? Giants were rumored to be interested,

by SFGuy on Jul 6, 2009 2:08 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

That would be typical Billy Beane, hearing the Giants had a deal in place and then disrupting it. They did the Giants’ a favor though. If we can’t do better than Scott Hairston, we should stand pat.

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by rxmeister on Jul 6, 2009 5:44 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

well, if the package Beane offered was actually better than the package the Giants offered then we were about to get Hairston for free.

by FluLikeSymptoms on Jul 6, 2009 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not that there is anything wrong with that

by wilriv21 on Jul 6, 2009 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

An A's friend hypothesized

that the PTBNL is Duchscheerabjsdfhwerer and he cannot be named until he comes off the DL.

by jctGamer on Jul 6, 2009 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

no way

that would actually be way too much

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by boonitez on Jul 6, 2009 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah, I seriously doubt that is the case

by FluLikeSymptoms on Jul 6, 2009 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

is it really? Oakland has no use for him for the rest of the year, and doesn’t want to take on his salary.

He is a free agent at the end of the year.

by jctGamer on Jul 6, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Personally, I think it is a choice between Gallagher, Eveland, and Duchscherer.

by jctGamer on Jul 6, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I am willing to bet it was the Mets

by jctGamer on Jul 6, 2009 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Please no Holliday. He’s overvalued since has not put up big numbers with the A’s and a free agent after the season anyway. If could get him very cheaply, then yeah, can always use another bat, but not worth giving up their better prospects.

by barry100 on Jul 6, 2009 9:43 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs