Per USAtoday.com, OF Armando Rios has been released, P Mike Neu sent to AAA, and P's Scott Sanders and Toby Borland, IF Jason Wood and C Ryan Jorgensen sent to minor league camp.

Slaphands is gonna flip

Nothing shocking there. I expected Neu to make the club initially, but it looks like he has some fine tuning to do. I hope he gets it together.

Interesting michael neu didn't make the team.

would've been nice if we could at least have gotten a major-league-ready reliever in return for Mark Redman. i mean i realize dumping the salary was the whole point, but you're still making a trade...

 

oh well... I have a feeling we'll see almost all of these relievers at some time during the season.

would've been nice if we could at least have gotten a major-league-ready reliever in return for Mark Redman. i mean i realize dumping the salary was the whole point, but you're still making a trade...

 

oh well... I have a feeling we'll see almost all of these relievers at some time during the season.

I agree, I also felt that we should have gotten a bit more for Redman.

We should have gotten more in return for Redmond and Encarncion. Neu doesn't impress me. Maybe this opens the door for Wayne.

Yeah, We should've gotten something more than Neu who was drafted as a Rule 5 pick by the A's. Redman wasnt breaking the bank either with what he was making. I think we couldve had Redman start till AJ got better which looks like its going to be half a season and then trade him when we can fetch the most for him - at the MLB trading deadline.

Guys, the FO and most of the people here found Neu to be major league ready. The stuff is there, but the control isn't, which you can also tell from his WHIP and walk/k ratio from last season.

 

This most likely opens the door for Blaine Neal, because it was thought that Neu would set up, and Neal is, in fact, a set up pitcher. Wayne will probably make the team as well, and the way he's performed this ST it's with good reason.

Hopefully Neu will be back soon

I never had much faith in Neu to begin with. I really thought we should have tried to sign another reliever. We never did.

:shifty go wayne neal get there shot go fish

so much for all you hurricane homers who said neu was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

so much for all you hurricane homers who said neu was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Yeah how many times did Wade Boggs fail to make a club before he hit the show again?

When we first traded for Neu I had alot of expectations for him because of the way all the media and here were talking about him so its very intresting to see him not make the club.

We should have gotten more in return for Redmond and Encarncion. Neu doesn't impress me. Maybe this opens the door for Wayne.

AHHHHH!!!!!! IT'S REDMAN!!!!!! :banghead :banghead

so much for all you hurricane homers who said neu was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Yeah how many times did Wade Boggs fail to make a club before he hit the show again? stop comparing apples to oranges.

 

 

 

neu isnt as good as he was hyped.

 

 

fact.

How about you give him a chance?

 

How many regular season pitches has the kid thrown as a Marlin?

 

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so much for all you hurricane homers who said neu was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Yeah how many times did Wade Boggs fail to make a club before he hit the show again? stop comparing apples to oranges.

 

 

 

neu isnt as good as he was hyped.

 

 

fact. Very true....

How about you give him a chance?

 

How many regular season pitches has the kid thrown as a Marlin?

 

Question

Not even good enough to make it through spring training.Face it people hype him because he was former Cane.I remember making comment that Fish should gotten more but some people were in love with Neu because what he did while in UM.

Beane burned us.

How about you give him a chance?

 

How many regular season pitches has the kid thrown as a Marlin?

 

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none.

 

 

 

and it wont be any for the forseeable future.

i didn't see where Neu was ever hyped in the first place, outside of this board. sure there was an article or two about him, that's to be expected of a kid who went to college here.

 

the point is he's nothing to hype in the first place. if he surprises this year, fantastic. but for a 14 game winner, we could and should have gotten at least someone who has been a decent MAJOR LEAGUE RELIEVER. Not someone we HOPE can be.

 

Beinfest has made many wise moves in the past. This one wasn't one of them.

Redman ST ERA > 9

 

And he ran outta gas late last year.

 

Let's not glorify the guy - he's just a lefty soft-tosser.

 

Oliver > Redman

i didn't see where Neu was ever hyped in the first place, outside of this board. sure there was an article or two about him, that's to be expected of a kid who went to college here.

 

the point is he's nothing to hype in the first place. if he surprises this year, fantastic. but for a 14 game winner, we could and should have gotten at least someone who has been a decent MAJOR LEAGUE RELIEVER. Not someone we HOPE can be.

 

Beinfest has made many wise moves in the past. This one wasn't one of them.

 

Anything Beinfest got for Mark Redman was money found in the street. In 48 hours he was getting nothing for him. Beinfest essentially used the money he saved to acquire Oliver and Cordero, a deal I'd do any day. Neu was window-dressing. I thought from his first game (against UM) he looked like crap so this comes as no surprise.