Memories of the Blade

[Guest Edgy DC]

I challenge you to come up with a specific memory of Casey Fossum, signed away by the Tigers.

Didn't we sign him away from the Tigers ourselves? Oh, wait, that's the Hanshin Tigers that signed him. Good luck, Case.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

His name would scan into the 'Davy Crockett' theme rather well.

Casey, Caa-sey Fossum, king of the wild frontier.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

First No. 47 since Glavine.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I remember Darren O'Day.

[metirish]

His initials are CPF, that I remember.

[duan]

I thought this was going to be about ian bladergroen

[G-Fafif]

Or Tom Hall.

47 was mentioned upthread. That ruined him for me right there (no offense, Messrs. Orosco and Cornejo). Maybe if he'd been a righty. Maybe if I hadn't been watching him from virtually the same perspective at Citi that I last watched Glavine at Shea.

Other weird thing: first Met to come along with one of my cat's names, at least since I had the cat. Exhorting "Casey!" was just too weird, considering I spent nine years saying exactly that to a tabby.

Oh, and this: he really sucked. The pitcher, I mean. The cat was great.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He really sucked? 1 ER in 4 innings over 3 games.

That's not so bad. (Although he did give up 4 walks and 4 hits in those 4 innings. That's not so good.)

[Guest Edgy DC]

So he had the better ERA, but the cat had the better WHIP.

[Frayed Knot]

A former 1st round (supp) draft pick, he was once a 'can't touch' prospect for the Sawx who got touched anyway in 2003 in the Curt Schilling deal.
A year later he was being dealt to Tampa for Jose Cruz Jr.
Two years after that he was being released.
The Tigers will be his 5th ML squad since then and 8th overall.
I heard he even played for the Mets briefly but I can't confirm such rumors.