Comments on: A’s, Stephen Drew talking one-year deal with player option http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/06/as-stephen-drew-talking-one-year-deal-with-player-option/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:51:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mazblast http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/06/as-stephen-drew-talking-one-year-deal-with-player-option/comment-page-1/#comment-409228 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:04:48 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=270857#comment-409228 I don’t see a lot to get excited about with this guy–

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/drewst01.shtml

If he weren’t named Drew, he’d be considered fairly ordinary.

]]> By: tuberippin http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/06/as-stephen-drew-talking-one-year-deal-with-player-option/comment-page-1/#comment-409162 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:16:10 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=270857#comment-409162 Red Sox should know better than to trust a Drew.

]]> By: APBA Guy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/06/as-stephen-drew-talking-one-year-deal-with-player-option/comment-page-1/#comment-409153 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:30:24 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=270857#comment-409153 It will be interesting to see how high the A’s go on a 1 year plus option deal. With their young pitching they absolutely need the defense at short, but anything over $10M would really surprise me. The A’s commitment for 2013 is only $ 28.5 M (approx 1.4 Feesh) with 4 Arbs and 2 FA’s (McCarthy and Balfour) that they are in on. They also have about 14 (!) guys making minimum or another $ 7M total.

So $ 10M is very do-able for Drew, while still leaving a nice raise for Balfour and McCarthy, unless someone goes crazy for them, which the A’s will not do. 2012 was immensely profitable for the A’s. 2013 is the last year for the old national TV contracts before the additional revenue kicks in 2014. So the A’s won’t go berserk on payroll but $ 62-65M is certainly feasible, and they’ll trade guys mid-year if the team stinks and attendance drops back to 2010 levels.

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