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Transaction Oracle— A Timely Look at Transactions as They Happen
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
A’s - Signed Cameron, Bozied
Oakland A’s - Signed P Kevin Cameron and 1B Tagg Bozied to minor-league contracts.
These could possibly be more than minor-league filling moves, especially the former.
Cameron picked an excellent situation to be in. He’s a decent groundball pitcher (though not as groundbally as, say, Brandon Webb) and the A’s should have a good infield defense once again. Cameron sprained his UCL last season and never got a chance to get his job back. He’s still yet to give up a home run in the majors in 68 innings. I was actually quite surprised that he passed through waivers - there are dozens of players who are on 40-man rosters that aren’t anywhere near as useful as Cameron is. Good move here, though I expect the A’s won’t have a ton of leads to protect.
Bozied, on the other hand, didn’t exactly pick the best organization. While the A’s are more willing than most teams to give minor league veterans a chance, Jack Cust is a much better player who also plays Bozied best position (DH) and the team is apparently showing the player at Bozied’s third least-bad position (Daric Barton) a lot of leeway. Not a good park for a player whose value comes primarily from home runs.
ZiPS Projection - Kevin Cameron
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W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA ERA+
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2009 2 2 38 0 49 49 21 1 26 30 3.86 110
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Top Comps: Dave Smith, John Riedling
ZiPS Projection - Tagg Bozied
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AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG OPS+
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2009 360 42 86 17 1 14 51 34 68 2 .239 .310 .408 93
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Top Comps: Josh Rabe, Ron Kittle
ODDIBE - Odds of Important Baseball Events
Offense %
STAR 3
AVG 15
REP LV 53
OPS+ % OBP % 3B % Hits %
>160 0 >.400 0 >10 0 >200 0
>140 1 >.375 1 >5 2 >150 0
>120 8 >.350 8
>100 35 >.325 27 2B %
>80 74 >.300 60 >45 0
>60 96 >30 0
BA % SLG % HR % SB %
>.350 0 >.550 0 >50 0 >70 0
>.325 0 >.500 5 >40 0 >50 0
>.300 1 >.450 25 >30 0 >30 0
>.275 8 >.400 57 >20 12 >10 0
>.250 27 >.350 87 >10 84
(Based on Projected PA)
Dan Szymborski
Posted: December 02, 2008 at 06:33 PM | 11 comment(s)
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1. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: December 02, 2008 at 09:49 PM (#3019199)Also, yet another decent reliever who slips through Darth Minaya's fingers. You'd think that, given a good starting rotation and one of the best offenses in the NL last year, he'd be out picking up decent relievers to replace every last member of last years gasoline squad, but so far he's sat on his thumbs. It's very irritating, especially since the inevitable result is an overpay for K-rod (as if that fixes the problem of having no reliable setup man or 7th inning bridge, or the overabundance of OOGYs).
Cameron's not a bad snag, either.
I'd like to think so but it's definitely an uphill climb trying to match up a bunch of young starting pitching with what the Angels have.
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