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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 |
Shut Up, Arthur
You've been a dominant middle-relief guy throughout your career, and now you're a free agent. A team needing a closer takes a flyer on you to make you their closer, a position you've coveted for years.
Then you blow it, losing five of fourteen opportunities. It takes some cojones of brass after those repeated collapses to make stupid comments to the press like these:
No other bullpen has been as spectacularly flammable as Oakland's in recent weeks -- its 48 percent conversion mark (13-for-27) is the second-worst save percentage in the AL -- and yet the relievers apparently spent much of their time during Oakland's series-opening pasting [at Anaheim] the other night fuming behind the left-field fence about general remarks attributed to a couple of starting pitchers.Right, Arthur, because you're not capable of doing your job?"We had two starters on this team say that the bullpen needs to step it up," Arthur Rhodes said. "You shouldn't say that. You shouldn't say that. If we lose as a team, we all lose. If we win as a team, we all win. You can't have two starters saying that.
"If you're not man enough to come to somebody on the field and tell them to do a better job, don't say in the paper that we're doing a bad job. ...
"It's one of those things where if they can do better, they can go nine innings. Let 'em go nine innings."
Comments:
A's talking about getting Dotel (three way trade with Beltran going from KC to Houston). I'm fine with that. We know Beane is going to make a move, and I'd rather they have Dotel than Mota.
http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/oak/news/oak_news.jsp?ymd=20040623&content_id=778150&vkey=news_oak&fext=.jsp
mattkew
http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/oak/news/oak_news.jsp?ymd=20040623&content_id=778150&vkey=news_oak&fext=.jsp
mattkew
# posted by 
: 6/23/2004 04:38:00 PM
: 6/23/2004 04:38:00 PM
Never mind, apparently the deal has fallen through because they balked at taking Dotel's 2.xM contract.
mattkew
mattkew
# posted by : 6/23/2004 04:49:00 PM
: 6/23/2004 04:49:00 PM
Never mind, apparently the deal has fallen through because they balked at taking Dotel's 2.xM contract.
mattkew
mattkew
# posted by : 6/23/2004 04:50:00 PM
: 6/23/2004 04:50:00 PM
I don't see Dotel going anywhere for the same reason I don't see Mota going anywhere: neither team has a ready replacement available for that position, and Beane, despite the Moneyball propaganda, really doesn't have that much in the farm that's going to make an impact. He's been drafting high for a while now.
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