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A’s DFA Fernando Rodney, Select Wei-Chung Wang

By TC Zencka | May 25, 2019 at 12:30pm CDT

The Oakland Athletics have designated veteran reliever Fernando Rodney for assignment, their PR department announced. Wei-Chung Wang’s contract has been selected from Triple-A Las Vegas in a corresponding move.

This could spell the end of the road for 42-year-old Rodney, whose days of slinging arrows may be numbered after a 9.42 ERA in 17 appearances. Still, given the state of bullpens around the league, it would not be a shock to see Rodney hitch his cart to a different horse for another go-round. His 5.46 FIP isn’t all that far off the 4.52 mark he chalked up last season, and he’s striking out batters at just a slightly lower rate. On the flip side, his velocity is down a full mph, and his walk rate is up to 17.1 BB%, all of which and more has led to an ugly -0.6 rWAR mark on the year.

Rodney debuted as a 25-year-old way back in 2002 for the Tigers. He has twice led the league in games finished, while he took home the saves title with 48 for the Mariners as a 37-year-old. On the whole, he has appeared in 913 major league baseball games, thrown 899 2/3 innings, and struck out 908 professional baseball hitters at the game’s highest level. He sports a career 3.79 ERA and almost identical 3.77 FIP.

Wei-Chung Wang will make his first appearance in the majors since 2017 with the Brewers. This season in Triple-A he’s gone 1-1 with 16 appearances and a 3.75 ERA and 3.75 K/BB rate. The lefty spent last season with the NC Dinos of the KBO, going 7-10 with a 4.26 ERA across 25 starts.

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Comments

  1. passed_balls

    4 years ago

    YAY!!!!

    Reply
  2. Michael Chaney

    4 years ago

    Remember when the Marlins traded Chris Paddack for him?

    Reply
    • Strike Four

      4 years ago

      and the White Sox gave up Tatis for Shields, SD been pantsing dudes out there lol

      Reply
      • stan lee the manly

        4 years ago

        Easy to do when you commit to losing enough that selling off all of your major-league ready talent is allowed

        Reply
    • Show Me Your Tatis

      4 years ago

      Remember when the Padres traded Trea Turner for Wil Myers?

      Reply
  3. arc89

    4 years ago

    A sad day for all hitters around the league. there is no more Rodney to take batting practice on.

    Reply
  4. LodgeBoxin

    4 years ago

    Rodneys 2013 with the Rays was a masterclass. Best wishes in what ever route he goes moving forward.

    Reply
    • DarkSide830

      4 years ago

      i believe you mean 2012

      Reply
      • LodgeBoxin

        4 years ago

        I do

        Reply
  5. Reflect

    4 years ago

    Rodney is looking kinda chunky these days

    Reply
    • connfyoozed

      4 years ago

      He was always a bit hefty, but this year he’s looked like he’s been eating tires on a regular basis.

      Reply
  6. DLOCK1964

    4 years ago

    Will probably end up with Nationals.

    Reply
  7. rathman53

    4 years ago

    Thank God!!!!!!

    Reply
  8. James Ryu

    4 years ago

    He should never play another MLB game. He blows chunks

    Reply
    • nymetsking

      4 years ago

      That explains the look on Chunks’ face.

      Reply
      • ShieldF123

        4 years ago

        Favorite comment of the day

        Reply
      • iplay_in_traffic

        4 years ago

        I’m ded

        Reply
  9. RoyalsFanAmongWolves

    4 years ago

    Please don’t tell dayton Moore. He likes picking up dumpster pitchers

    Reply
  10. Strike Four

    4 years ago

    Now they gotta trade out Hundley for Taylor, then Hermann, and also trade out Brooks for Blackburn, then Luzardo.

    Blackburn looking sharp lately and has really only had 1 bad start out of 9 at AAA. No reason to keep him down if he’s going 7 strong at AAA.

    Hundley keeps crossing up all the pitchers, he’s terrible at catching and hitting, he’s had enough rope, time to move onto to Beau Taylor and his .500 OBP.

    Reply
    • sacball

      4 years ago

      Taylor’s not on the 40-man…they’re probably going to wait until Hermann’s back to DFA Hundley.

      Reply
      • Strike Four

        4 years ago

        Taylor and Blackburn for Hundley and Brooks

        Reply
        • sacball

          4 years ago

          even though I’m not too high on Blackburn, I’d be down to swap out those to any day!

    • athleticsnchill

      4 years ago

      And do what with Blackburn? We have a full rotation. Fiers, Anderson, Montas, Bassitt and Mengden.

      Reply
      • Ruff Kuntry

        4 years ago

        Question is what will the A’s do if Bassitt and Mengden continue to pitch well with Cotton, Manaea, Puk, and Luzardo coming back.

        Reply
        • athleticsnchill

          4 years ago

          Reinforce our dumpster fire Triple A rotation. Cotton, Manaea, Puk, Luzardo and Kaprielian will all be on innings limits. They could feasibly run 2 or 3 tandem rotations in Triple A if they feel Jefferies is as far along as those 5 guys.

          Let them build their arm strength up without the stress of pitching in competitive games if we absolutely don’t need them. I do expect Luzardo to be up at some point, though. Mengden is walking way too many batters right now for me to feel comfortable about playing him against teams with good offense. Not sure how he was able to get away with 5 walks last night and only surrender a single run.

        • Ruff Kuntry

          4 years ago

          That is true. Mengden is the easy choice to let go.

        • athleticsnchill

          4 years ago

          He still has an option for this year, so we can stash him as depth. Gonna have to make a decision on him next year, or he’ll be immediately grabbed up by a bottom feeder team that sees his league minimum contract and take it in a heartbeat. *cough* Orioles *cough*

  11. connfyoozed

    4 years ago

    Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody Wei-Chung tonight.

    Reply
    • MasterShake

      4 years ago

      Well I lol’d

      Reply
  12. bjupton100

    4 years ago

    Down a full mph, to what 97 mph?

    Reply
  13. CLKR

    4 years ago

    I wonder if the Braves would take a chance on him?

    Reply
    • MasterShake

      4 years ago

      Why would you say this out loud!? Management might hear you!

      Reply
  14. sacball

    4 years ago

    Brooks next please! followed by Grossman…

    Reply
  15. overratedsandy

    4 years ago

    NY METS here I come……

    Reply
  16. xtim87x

    4 years ago

    Blue jays here i Come

    Reply
  17. Strike Four

    4 years ago

    Billy Beane & Co:

    /has the best defensive INF in MLB
    /trades for and then re-signs the one pitcher who isn’t affected by defense

    First Casilla now Rodney? Do the A’s FO hate their fans or something?

    They need to make it up to them by trading for the biggest most obvious trade match there is in MLB, and that’s for Marcus “groundball” Stroman. Stroman’s ERA would be 0.50 if he had Chapman, Semien, Olson, Laureano and Pinder behind him. Cashner is similar, but he might retire (?) if traded so Stroman really is the guy.

    Reply
    • sacball

      4 years ago

      Stroman would be tempting, but I honestly think the A’s have too much pitching coming back and a bunch on the horizon to even facilitate a trade involving Stroman. He definitely wouldn’t be cheap.

      Reply
      • athleticsnchill

        4 years ago

        Especially since it’ll take one of those pitchers coming back from injury to get him. Costs too much for guys whose ceilings are higher than his.

        Reply
    • athleticsnchill

      4 years ago

      We don’t need and probably don’t want Stroman. He has a bad attitude and he’d cost us one of Puk, Luzardo or Murphy. All 3 of those guys should be untouchable right now, and we shouldn’t be trading for a potential #1 to anchor nothing.

      Reply
    • groundhog5150

      4 years ago

      Sorry, Stroman will play in California, but not in Oakland.

      Reply
      • groundhog5150

        4 years ago

        Oops, my post was meant for the post above yours.

        Reply
  18. erauber

    4 years ago

    Worst move of the off-season was picking up his option. You could see that at the time.

    Reply
  19. ScottCarriere

    4 years ago

    Straighten your damn hat before you come back.

    Reply
    • ssacaffrey

      4 years ago

      Read why he does it then sit back down

      Reply
    • JDGoat

      4 years ago

      You win worst yet most predictable comment!

      Reply
    • randallsimon

      4 years ago

      Someone is racist.

      Reply
  20. Ruff Kuntry

    4 years ago

    I was surprised Wang was not on the active roster that went to Japan.

    Reply
  21. jeffmaz

    4 years ago

    Never a Rodney fan until he pitched for my Padres for one of the best closer performances period. And obviously his deadline trade will make him a fan of the Padres for years to come.

    Reply
  22. 2weeks

    4 years ago

    rangers will take rodney

    Reply
  23. geg42

    4 years ago

    Was Rodney the oldest guy to play this year? Who is next oldest?

    Reply
    • connfyoozed

      4 years ago

      Rodney is the oldest active player (he’s still active until he gets released, at least to me he’s still active). He’s the only active player over 40. Next oldest is Albert Pujols, who turns 40 in January. There are a bunch of 39 year-olds: Nelson Cruz, Pat Neshek, probably a couple others I’m not thinking of.

      Reply
      • geg42

        4 years ago

        Thanks for the info!

        Reply
  24. Nobby

    4 years ago

    Red Sox should take a flyer on Rodney.

    Reply
  25. wild05fan

    4 years ago

    You guys are being too harsh. the dude is 42. The ending was coming sooner or later. in any resort, solid career for anybody to play 18 seasons at its highest level.

    Reply
    • groundhog5150

      4 years ago

      There is absolutely no reason to post sane and rational comments on the internet.

      Reply
  26. connfyoozed

    4 years ago

    Useless but mildly interesting trivia: Rodney wore uniform #56 every year of his 18 year career except the part of 2015 when he was with the Cubs. Hector Rondon was already wearing 56 and having the best season of his career when the Cubs acquired Rodney, so I would guess that Hector didn’t want to give it up.

    Reply
  27. lonestardodger

    4 years ago

    Nationals may be desperate enough

    Reply
  28. Bob Melvin

    4 years ago

    He seemed lost with the A’s. He is a effectively wild closer over his career. Pitching in mop up or non save situations isn’t good for him. He looked like he struggled with his overall focus and is checked out. He is likely done!!

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