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Padres call up Tekotte, send Venable to AAA and DFA Deduno

Appears the #padres move: Blake Tekotte from double a for Will Venable. More on the shuffle of who is designated for assignment soonless than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone Favorite Retweet Reply

#Padres have DFA'd right-handed pitcher Samuel Deduno to make room on the 40-man for Tekotte. #MLBless than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet Reply

 

Friarhood tweeted last night that Blake Tekotte was being called up from AA, based on his sources.  A few minutes later Tekotte's teammates were congratulating him on Twitter too, but official news didn't break until about an hour ago.  The real mystery seemed to be who would be sent down and who would be DFA'd.  Which led to a funny exchange with Pat Neshek based on how sad he looked while taking a phone call after the game.  It turns out that he was just calling for a ride and it wasn't him.

Today we find out it's Will Venable being sent down which surprised me, but I guess it shouldn't have based on the way he's been playing.


G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB CS AVG OBP SLG
2011 - Will Venable 40 134 16 30 5 2 0 8 13 36 11 2 .224 .293 .291

But then again, maybe it should have surprised me since every player's stats look just as bad.