Waived by Toronto in November along with Casey Lawrence. Lawrence went unclaimed, Suacedo was picked up by the Mets, who just tried to sneak him through waivers now, and he got claimed again.
I think the thing I dislike about St Louis the most, is how they always seem to end up getting competitive balance picks, when they're clearly not a team hurting for money. It's like they have all the benefits of a large payroll team in that they can retain or sign any free agent they want (within limits) and then get handed a few extra picks even though they continue to do well in the standings.
Not hard to succeed when they have the best of both worlds.
I was legit pissed when they traded Green. Right after his only all star season, he and Delgado has just cemented themselves in the middle of the lineup.... but of course at that point i was never really following anything other than the on field stuff, so had no idea about the sale of the team and the ******** that was about to happen.
"Trip from a-ball to the majors is often done in 2 years no matter what the players age" - this really doesn't happen all that often overall for MILB players. There's hundreds and thousands that never even sniff the majors.
Though I think maybe youre meaning, of the players who eventually make the majors, they often make the jump from Aball to the majors in 2 years. That would be more accurate.
Yeah the pic i posted was a series a few months after the whole "HA" thing from A-Rod. Arod got thrown behind by Litsch in the first game of the series, then hit by Towers in this game (hence the pic), Matt Stairs tried to get after ARod but was held back by someone... then Clemens hit Rios square in the back later on. I think the benches cleared like 4 times that day.
Was the same game wehn Joba Chamberlain made his MLB debut.