God hates moneyball

[jersey cubs fan]

Oakland Athletics prospect Grant Desme is retiring from baseball to enter the priesthood.

 

Desme was recently selected the 2009 Arizona Fall League MVP and was considered one of the top prospects in Oakland's system. The 23-year-old outfielder batted .288 with 31 homers, 89 RBIs and 40 stolen bases in 131 games at Class-A Kane County and Stockton last season.

 

He then hit .315 with a league-leading 11 home runs and 27 RBIs in 27 games in the fall league.

 

"We respect Grant's decision and wish him nothing but the best in his future endeavors," Athletics general manager Billy Beane said in a statement.

[A-Cal]

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

[jersey cubs fan]

Deadspin headline

 

Prospect Leaves A's To Become Padre, Hopefully An Angel

[Clem Fandango]

Mother effer. In one of my dynasty leagues he was my latest minor league pickup

[CubsWin]

Deadspin headline

 

Prospect Leaves A's To Become Padre, Hopefully An Angel

That's awesome.

[danonwaveland]

The guy must love God. I can understand giving up a wife and kids to be a priest, but baseball -- this is serious stuff.

 

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Sandberg>Mazeroski>Morgan

[weis21]

Deadspin headline

 

Prospect Leaves A's To Become Padre, Hopefully An Angel

That's awesome.

Yes. That is too awesome to even be sacrilegious.

[weis21]

On a side note, good luck to him. If he was a Cubs top prospect, I'd probably have some regrets with him leaving. But, jealous baseball fan feelings aside, there are many things more important than baseball in this world.

 

If you feel sports is not your true calling, and you could accomplish more in another career (see: Pat Tillman), then I have no problem.

[Guest]

Yahoo's story talked about him leaving the A's to play with the "other" padres and cardinals.

[TruffleShuffle]

going from a minor league baseball team to the priesthood has to be pretty much a complete 180 as far as lifestyle.

[NCCubFan]

Former Cub Billy Sunday did the same thing (I forget whether he was late 1800s or early 1900s).

[Garwilly]

Former Cub Billy Sunday did the same thing (I forget whether he was late 1800s or early 1900s).

 

Retired after 1890.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sundabi01.shtml

[jersey cubs fan]

going from a minor league baseball team to the priesthood has to be pretty much a complete 180 as far as lifestyle.

 

It's chasing a whole different type of tail.

[radarluv1]

Geez I don't understand why he wouldn't give it 2 more seasons to see how far he could go. Think how much more weight he could carry with youths, for instance as a big leaguer. Could the A's ask for a portion of a signing bonus back? Though that might be bad PR.