Our old friend Hayden

[wildcard]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/11/1523280/florida-marlins-notebook-hayden.html

[Moose Milligan]

Eh, gotta root for the guy. Hope he sticks...maybe that sinker will work well for him.

[RShack]

Eh, gotta root for the guy. Hope he sticks...maybe that sinker will work well for him.

I hope so. He had a string of more bad-luck stuff than anybody I ever heard of. I hope he can overcome it in the end.

[Behemoth Jones]

I'm confused -- wasn't he out of options last year? If he wasn't, the O's would have just optioned him to Norfolk in the hopes he'd finally pan out. Florida sent him to the minors, and he cleared waivers, yet the article says "But they kept him on their 40-man roster." That doesn't make sense. I assume they must have called him back up later in the year, in which case he'd again have the options issue.

Regardless, I wish him well. There was a time when he was a great hope from our farm system.

[OrangeJerseys]

I always liked Penn. Like Shack said he sure had one of the worst strings of luck ever. Here's to wishing the best for him.

[NewMarketSean]

I'm confused -- wasn't he out of options last year? If he wasn't, the O's would have just optioned him to Norfolk in the hopes he'd finally pan out. Florida sent him to the minors, and he cleared waivers, yet the article says "But they kept him on their 40-man roster." That doesn't make sense. I assume they must have called him back up later in the year, in which case he'd again have the options issue.

Regardless, I wish him well. There was a time when he was a great hope from our farm system.

I was wondering about this too.

Either way, I am rooting for Penn. It's hard to believe he is still only 25 years old.

[QSII]

One of my favorites. Heat and an assortment. It sounds like they're going to have a role for him. Right before a flying fish embeds itself in his ear and its tail puts out his eye.

[rhall]

I'm confused -- wasn't he out of options last year? If he wasn't, the O's would have just optioned him to Norfolk in the hopes he'd finally pan out. Florida sent him to the minors, and he cleared waivers, yet the article says "But they kept him on their 40-man roster." That doesn't make sense. I assume they must have called him back up later in the year, in which case he'd again have the options issue.

Regardless, I wish him well. There was a time when he was a great hope from our farm system.

Putting a player through waivers doesn't have anything to do with his status on the 40-man roster. It just means that they're not keeping him on the active 25-man roster. He cleared waivers and went down to the minors last season, and I think that as a player who's out of options, he'll have to go through waivers again every new season if he doesn't stick on the 25-man roster.

As for keeping him on the 40-man in 2009 after demoting him, they probably kept him on the 40-man roster to avoid losing him altogether. IIRC, if you want to remove a player from the 40-man, he has the option of refusing the assignment and choosing to become a free agent.

[McLovin]

Penn was out of options last year. He didn't do too well for the Marlins, and he made it through waivers unclaimed.

At the time in spring training, the O's were sure he wouldn't have made it through waivers. (And case in point, the Marlins thought highly enough of him to trade for him, so one could assume that they at least would have claimed him.)

[olehippi]

Talk about a guy who walked around with a black cloud over his head....Penn was the living example of such cartoon characters. I wish him the best of luck with the Marlins.

[Who's On 1st]

I am pulling for Hayden to make it!

IMO, he just had that string of bad luck. I liked him from the first time I saw him in low A Delmarva.

[cindyluvsbrady]

AWWWWW

Go Hayden!