Thursday, November 25, 2004

Adios Jason Kendall

Jason Kendall to Oakland for Diamond-ear Rhodes and Mark Redman. Robert Dvorchak has details in the PG. Bob Smizik is on it with today's column. (What is he -- a blogger?) The AP story can be found here, among many places.

The San Francisco Chronicle has two reports, one here and another here.

It sounds like the deal isn't final yet. If it goes through, we'll have plenty to talk about.

...Blez and the Athletics Nation are pretty happy this morning. As they should be.

It's hard to lose a player like Kendall, but I can live with this deal. We have a bunch of catchers without him (Cota, House, Craig Wilson, Ronny Paulino, and later, we hope, Neil Walker). The A's were eager to hustle Redman out the door to make room for Joe Blanton, and Rhodes wore out his welcome there when they asked him to close after he had been on the record saying he wasn't a closer. If we hold onto Rhodes, the bullpen is looking pretty fierce, and that's good news for the young starters.

...fri...Brian O'Neill offers his take in today's PG.

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