04-02-2010, 04:30 PM
<!--quoteo(post=85643:date=Apr 2 2010, 02:59 PM:name=KBwsb)-->QUOTE (KBwsb @ Apr 2 2010, 02:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=85632:date=Apr 2 2010, 02:19 PM:name=rok)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rok @ Apr 2 2010, 02:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Just looked it up, and Gallagher is still only 24 yet out of options with SD. I'm not saying he will ever amount to anything, but I'm not going to call his career over just yet. Some team might take a chance on him and straighten him out. I have a feeling he could have been decent had he stayed in our organization, and was showing some promise when we traded him. Doesn't change the fact that it was a great trade at the time, and I was happy to get Gaudin too.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Good post, all the way around.
Why did we ditch Gaudin, btw? Sure would like to have him now.
Also, I was probably the biggest Dick Harden fan on the site, but even I wouldn't have signed him for huge money. He's just too damn brittle.
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He seemed to have lost his way sometime around August of the 2008 season. There was talk that Gaudin injured himself late one night while out on the town, something about falling into a dumpster (no joke) and hurting his back. There was even speculation that he had a poor attitude, and we all know how Lou despises guys like that. It was clear that the team soured on him, and his role in the pen diminished considerably from that point on. He was never the same after that, and his career has been going in the wrong direction ever since we released him in the Spring of 2009. Too bad it didn't work out, because he was solid with us until that "injury" and was pretty decent with the A's too.
Good post, all the way around.
Why did we ditch Gaudin, btw? Sure would like to have him now.
Also, I was probably the biggest Dick Harden fan on the site, but even I wouldn't have signed him for huge money. He's just too damn brittle.
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He seemed to have lost his way sometime around August of the 2008 season. There was talk that Gaudin injured himself late one night while out on the town, something about falling into a dumpster (no joke) and hurting his back. There was even speculation that he had a poor attitude, and we all know how Lou despises guys like that. It was clear that the team soured on him, and his role in the pen diminished considerably from that point on. He was never the same after that, and his career has been going in the wrong direction ever since we released him in the Spring of 2009. Too bad it didn't work out, because he was solid with us until that "injury" and was pretty decent with the A's too.