Pardon us if this has been everywhere already, but Roughkat just sent it to us and it rather amuses us: a minor league baseball player was traded recently in exchange for 10 bats (note: actual bats might differ from those pictured). From the AP (and please do note the bold items from us):

During three years in the low minors, John Odom never really made a name for himself.

That sure changed this week - he’s the guy the Calgary Vipers traded for a bunch of bats. “I don’t really care,” he said Friday. “It’ll make a better story if I make it to the big leagues.”

For now, Odom is headed to the Laredo Broncos of the United League. They got him Tuesday from Calgary of the Golden Baseball League for a most unlikely price: 10 Prairie Sticks Maple Bats, double-dipped black, 34-inch, C243 style.

“They just wanted some bats, good bats - maple bats,” Broncos general manager Jose Melendez said.

According to the Prairie Sticks Web site, their maple bats retail for US$69 each, discounted to $65.50 for purchases of six to 11 bats.

“It will be interesting to see what 10 bats gets us,” Melendez said.

The Vipers team signed Odom about a month ago, but couldn’t get the 26-year-old righty into Canada. It seems Odom had a “minor” but unspecified criminal record that wasn’t revealed to immigration officials before they scanned his passport, Vipers president Peter Young said.

Maybe they should have saved some of those bats. Maybe more of them would have come alive.

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