According to A's radio broadcasters, Huston Street has cleaned out his locker, possible...

According to A's radio broadcasters, Huston Street has cleaned out his locker, possible destinations include San Diego and TAMPA BAY!!!!!!!!!OMFG

A's Radio broadcasters, and my hopes and dreams.

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OH GOD PLEASE BE TRUE

by P Brady on Jul 11, 2008 1:01 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

btw, I heard THIS yesterday:

“ESPN’s Buster Olney stated today that the A’s are looking to quickly trade away Matt Murton and possibly Huston street to either the Padres or the Rays.”

by P Brady on Jul 11, 2008 1:48 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I saw that too

I would love adding street’s arm and Murton will make a great platoon player.

Blake
USF--Class of '09

by usfraysfan on Jul 11, 2008 9:33 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, and just out of curiousity

what order would we likely see the pitchers come into the game with a 1 run lead if we got Street or Fuentes?

Blake
USF--Class of '09

by usfraysfan on Jul 11, 2008 9:34 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

street would have to be the closer

Fuentes might work set-up if Percy came back strong.

by rglass44 on Jul 11, 2008 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'd suspect

7th – Wheeler, Balfour, Reyes
8th – Percival (though Maddon promised him closer duties so he’d probably remain 9th)
9th – Street

7th – Wheeler, Balfour, Reyes
8th – Fuentes
9th – Percival

Either way, damn that’s a good bullpen.

by floridaroar on Jul 11, 2008 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

agreed

One other thing about this is it will keep all the arms fresh. No Percy on back to back days. Rarely have to use a guy the next day after going more than 1. That would be nice.

by rglass44 on Jul 11, 2008 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

look at the value placed on K-rod (by hisself). Give any other closer that same job and he more then likely comes out within a save or 2 of K-rod. It’s nice having someone you know can close out games, but your team has to get him into that position first. And if you’re constantly up by 1-3 runs in the 9th, you’re closer is going to have a whole bunch of saves.

by chancedj on Jul 11, 2008 10:14 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

K-Rod is in a class of his own.

by floridaroar on Jul 11, 2008 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

K-Rod is the next Eric Gagne

Sans ‘roids (allegedly)

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

by Orlando Rays on Jul 11, 2008 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

K-Rod is really good at being on a team that gets him lots of save opportunites.

As to how well he pitches in those save situations, he’s not any better than other top-tier closers (Nathan, Rivera, Jenks, Soria, Wagner, etc).

by Peter Bendix on Jul 11, 2008 12:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Whoops....

responded to the wrong post by you :). But yea, we’d see something like:

7th – Balfour, Reyes
8th – Wheeler/Street
9th – Street/Percival alternating days, perci gets the bulk of the work.

This way, if we need to give wheeler a rest after 3-4 days of back to back work, we can stick Street in to give him a break and then put in Perci. If perci works back to back days, we can put wheeler in in the 8th and street in in the 9th.

by chancedj on Jul 11, 2008 10:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey, where is Glover? He should be in there to right? He only gave up 7runs yesterday, that's all!

LMAO

by Rays Rule on Jul 11, 2008 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Interesting that they would suddenly throw away their closer like this.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

by Orlando Rays on Jul 11, 2008 6:10 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

That's Beane's MO

He recognizes how overvalued closers are. He drove up the value of Koch and Taylor and traded them. In the two deals, he netted two MR you may have heard of (Isringhausen and Keith Foulke). After they bothe were used as closers he let the two walk and took the compensation. You will probably never see Beane trade for an established closer or sign one. It is generally a waste because ONE STAT can drive up their value.

by rglass44 on Jul 11, 2008 8:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good thing this site uses more than one stat.

by Peter Bendix on Jul 11, 2008 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I hope he's a Ray.

Any updates on this? I can’t find anything on the net.

by floridaroar on Jul 11, 2008 9:13 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

The lack of online rumors or reports

is starting to make me lose faith

Blake
USF--Class of '09

by usfraysfan on Jul 11, 2008 1:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

What did we hear about the Harden deal?

Plus, Olney had a report. DON’T MAKE ME LOSE FAITH.

by P Brady on Jul 11, 2008 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

good point

and congrats on being piggy-backed.

I hope this thing gets done. Ive been looking around the internet and checking back here like crazy all day because I’m extremely eager with anticipation.

Blake
USF--Class of '09

by usfraysfan on Jul 11, 2008 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs