All-Star reliever Darren O'Day is still paying tribute to Nick Adenhart

[gotbeer]

All-Star reliever Darren O'Day is still paying tribute to Nick Adenhart

 

[seenoevil]

Class act

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

I wish we never let him go. I've always liked O'Day.

[Pujols4MVP]

I wish we never let him go. I've always liked O'Day.

 

Same. Another bad move Reagins made.

[nando714]

Same. Another bad move Sosh made.

Fify

[Chuck]

I wish we never let him go. I've always liked O'Day.

 

He liked us, too! 

 

In fact, he used to journal for our website as a minor leaguer and big leaguer.

 

http://angelswinblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/darren-oday-player-journal-2008.html

[mtangelsfan]

Fify

 

Stupid, you think Sosh wanted to lose a guy who was getting outs?

 

Come on.

[Thomas]

Stupid, you think Sosh wanted to lose a guy who was getting outs?

 

Come on.

 

Something something Steve Finley

[mtangelsfan]

I didn't know Sosh signed Steve Finley.

 

I will agree with the notion that Sosh favors vets but that hasn't played out in the pen, not at all.

[Thomas]

Safe to say you missed the joke.

[mtangelsfan]

Sorry, woke up early today.

 

I'll try to tune up my detector.

[Oz27]

Nice story.

I've been saying this for nearly a decade but the O'Day thing made no sense. There was no legitimate reason to give him up. Here's hoping that if our next GM is an internal promotion, it's better than the previous clusterf**k.

[Jobu]

Stupid, you think Sosh wanted to lose a guy who was getting outs?

Come on.

Scioscia has always had a weird relationship with side armers Edited July 15, 2015 by Jobu

[Angel Oracle]

Who the heck did we add to the 40 man roster to keep O'Day off of it after 2008? 

[ettin]

Who the heck did we add to the 40 man roster to keep O'Day off of it after 2008?

In their defense his 2008 year was his worst year in the Majors basically. 7.7% K%-BB%, .278 Average Against, 4.57 ERA which was higher than his peripherals but his peripherals were still poor for a reliever.

Considering that the Angels probably weren't very analytically savvy at that time, I can see why they may not have protected him in the Rule 5.

Personally someone like Dipoto probably would have recognized that hitters aren't able to square up the ball against O'Day and may have kept him despite the poor performance but again it was 2008 not today.

It's just one of those players that moves on and finds success. O'Day is similar to Johan Santana, Jose Bautista, Steave Pearce, et al. We just lost the bet.

[Angel Oracle]

And to be fair, Figgins was that player for us, it only taking Kimera Bartee to acquire him.

[m0nkey]

I remember watching him talk about it the day after when he was with the mets