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Minor transactions: OF Slayden voluntarily retires

Found August 07, 2009 on Beerleaguer:
PLAYERS: Jack Cust
TEAMS: Oakland Athletics

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Some Beerleaguer favorites made transaction wire news today. [Link] Reading outfielder Jeremy Slayden, who our own Clout famously compared to a future Jack Cust, decided to hang up the spikes today at age 27. He was hitting .281/.372/.525 for Reading after starting the year in Triple-A after being left unprotected in the Rule 5 draft. He went unclaimed. Twenty-two-year-old outfielder Steve Susdorf, a guy Bill Conlin seems to like, was added from Clearwater, where he was hitting .373/.423/.513 with three...
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