When should a minor league baseball player give up?  Perhaps when they were traded for a bunch of bats?

(cross-blogging time…you can see this in another version on RotoJoe.com)

Not-so-favorite son of Atlanta John Odom was recently traded for 10 baseball bats.  He was having immigration problems due to an incident when he was 17 years old (that was expunged from his record but still kept popping up during immigration).  So the team that signed him traded him for 10 maple bats.  When offered cash, they cried “INSULT!” and decided that they would rather have the bats.  The bats end up being worth about $650-$700.

Man, to think that you’ve almost made it.  You’re playing your heart out trying to make it to the majors, struggling through the minor leagues…and then you’re traded for $700.

I can only imagine it would be similar to my boss coming up to me and saying, “Scruffd0g, we think you’ve got potential, but we’re going to trade you to another accounting firm.  We think it’s a great deal.  We’re getting back 1,000 pens, 200 pads of green-bar paper, and a $100 Office Depot gift certificate.”

Ouch.

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